Osakkaiden

Osakkaiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun osakas. Osakas denotes a partner or owner in a business context, and the term can refer to partners in a partnership or members of a cooperative. The form osakkaiden is used to indicate possession or relation, roughly translating to “the partners’” or “of the partners.”

In practice, osakkaiden appears in legal and administrative language to describe rights, duties, or other attributes belonging to the partners. Examples include osakkaiden oikeudet (the partners’ rights), osakkaiden velvollisuudet (the partners’ obligations), and osakkaiden kokous (the partners’ meeting). The sense is generic to partnerships and similar organizational forms where members have a stake in the enterprise.

For shareholders of a limited company, the standard term is osakkeenomistaja (plural osakkeenomistajat). While osakas can be used in some contexts to denote a stakeholder in a partnership, it is less typical for share ownership in corporations, where osakkeenomistajat is preferred.

Morphology note: the genitive plural suffix is -iden, yielding osakkaiden, while the nominative plural is osakkaat. This pattern is common in Finnish for forming possessive or associative phrases with plural nouns.

Overall, osakkaiden functions as a grammatical tool to express ownership or association with partners in Finnish, most frequently encountered in legal or formal business writing. See also: osakas, osakkeenomistaja, osakeyhtiö.