Piilevien
Piilevien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective piilevä, meaning latent or hidden. In Finnish, adjectives decline to match the nouns they describe in number and case, so piilevä becomes piilevien when used with a plural noun in the genitive case. The form piilevien typically appears in phrases such as piilevien riskien hallinta or piilevien tautien tutkimus, where a plural noun is modified by the latent adjective.
- Singular: nominative piilevä, genitive piilevän, partitive piilevää.
- Plural: nominative piilevät, genitive piilevien, partitive piileviä.
Piilevä is commonly found in scientific, medical, and risk-analysis contexts to describe phenomena that are not
Etymology and linguistic notes:
The Finnish piilevä derives from a root related to hiding or concealment, with the -evä suffix forming