Robottien

Robottien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun robotti, meaning robots. It translates roughly as “of robots” or “robots’” and is used to express possession or association in Finnish noun phrases. For example, robottien ohjelmointi means programming of robots, robottien käyttö refers to the use of robots, and robottien turvallisuus concerns the safety of robots.

Robotti is a loanword in Finnish, derived from the word robot, which in turn originates from the Czech term robota meaning forced labor, popularized by Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. The plural nominative is robotit, while the genitive plural is robottien.

In practice, robottien appears in contexts such as industry, automation, and research to indicate features or activities related to multiple robots. The form is used in formal and technical language, as well as in everyday speech when referring to the possessions or characteristics of more than one robot. For example, discussions of robottien ohjelmointi or robottien käyttö illustrate how the genitive plural functions in compound phrases.

Overall, robottien serves as a specific inflection in Finnish grammar that marks possession or association with a group of robots, distinguishing it from other cases and from the singular or plural nominative forms of robotti.