Papujen

Papujen is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun papu, meaning bean. It is used to indicate possession or association with beans in phrases such as papujen väri (the color of the beans) or papujen proteiinit (the beans’ proteins). In Finnish, the genitive plural appears when describing a relationship between beans and another noun.

As a grammatical form, papujen commonly appears in descriptive clauses and in compound nouns. It signals that the reference is about the beans as a group rather than to a single bean. For example, a recipe or nutrition text might discuss papujen koostumus (the composition of the beans) or papujen kastike (the sauce of the beans) in contexts where the beans are the topic.

In everyday use, papujen is not a standalone lexical item but a inflected form of papu used to link nouns or describe characteristics of beans. It contrasts with other forms of the same noun, such as pavut, the nominative plural meaning “the beans,” or papun, the genitive singular meaning “of the bean.”

Related terms include pavut and papun, which appear in different grammatical cases and numbers. The term’s primary utility is in Finnish sentences that discuss beans in a possessive or descriptive sense, such as culinary, agricultural, or nutritional contexts.