Samanvärisiä

Samanvärisiä is a Finnish adjective meaning “of the same color” or “the same-colored.” It is used to describe multiple objects that share a color, as in esineitä, jotka ovat samanvärisiä (items that are the same color) or samanväriset vaatteet (the clothes that are the same color). The base form is samanvärinen for singular and nominative usage; samanvärisiä is the plural form typically used with plural nouns in the partitive or related cases.

Linguistic notes: samanvärinen is a compound formed from sama, meaning “the same,” and värinen, meaning “colored.” Finnish adjectives inflect to agree with number and case of the nouns they modify, so samanvärinen, samanväriset, and samanvärisiä appear in different grammatical contexts. The form samanvärisiä is most commonly seen with plural nouns, often in a partitive sense (e.g., “samanvärisiä esineitä”). It can also occur in other plural cases depending on sentence structure.

Usage and contexts: the term is common in design, fashion, and art when describing color coordination or uniform color schemes. It helps convey that elements share a visual characteristic (color) rather than a specific hue. In product descriptions and styling discussions, phrases like “samanvärisiä” succinctly communicate uniformity of color across items.

See also: color harmony, color matching, Finnish grammar, compound adjectives.

Notes: while “samanvärisiä” signals color sameness, it does not specify the exact color. Additional descriptors (esimerkiksi sinisiä, vihreitä) clarify the actual hue when needed.