Palvelimina

Palvelimina is a Finnish linguistic term used to describe the plural instrumental form of the noun palvelin, meaning server. In Finnish, the instrumental case is not as common as other cases in everyday speech, but it appears in grammatical descriptions and some technical writing. The form palvelimina is formed by taking the stem palvelim- and adding the plural instrumental ending -ina, yielding palvelimina; it conveys the sense of "as servers" or "in the capacity of servers." The corresponding singular instrumental form is palvelimena (as a server).

In typical use, sentences employing palvelimina are mostly found in linguistic analysis, grammar references, or documentation about Finnish inflection, rather than in ordinary prose. For example, one might say that some machines act as servers in a network, expressed with a structure like "Koneet toimivat palvelimina tässä verkossa." However, in standard modern Finnish, speakers more commonly describe the role using other constructions, such as using palvelin in the plural nominative or other cases.

If you instead meant the common plural form palvelimia, i.e., the ordinary plural of palvelin referring to servers, that is the standard main form for everyday language.

See also: Palvelin; Finnish grammar; Inflection in Finnish.