Sammuttajia

Sammuttajia is the plural form of sammuttaja, a Finnish noun whose primary meaning is a person who extinguishes fires, such as a firefighter or rescuer. In everyday language sammuttajia usually refers to people who take part in fire suppression. In technical or institutional contexts the term is less common for devices; firefighting equipment is typically described as sammuttimet or other terms like palonsammutustehtäviin liittyvä laitteisto.

The word is formed from the verb sammuttaa (to extinguish) with the agentive suffix -ja. Like other -aja/-jä nouns, sammuttaja inflects in standard Finnish patterns. The nominative plural is sammuttajat, and the partitive plural is sammuttajia. The genitive plural is sammuttajien, and other case forms follow the regular declension of -aja nouns.

Usage notes: In Finnish, sammuttajia most often denotes people who extinguish fires. For example, sentences such as "Palon torjuntaan osallistuvat useat sammuttajat" or "Tarvittiin useita sammuttajia" refer to firefighters in plural form. When the reference is to extinguishing equipment rather than people, speakers typically use sammuttimet or other equipment-specific terms rather than sammuttajia.

See also: Palomies, Sammutus, Sammuttimet, Palonsammutustehtävät.