Suhteita

Suhteita is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun suhde, which means relationship, connection, or proportion. The term covers personal relationships as well as more abstract relations between people, groups, organizations, or countries. It can also refer to proportional relationships in mathematics, although in everyday Finnish the primary sense is social or professional connections. The base word suhde has various uses, and related forms include suhde (singular), suhteet (nominative plural), and suhdetta (singular partitive). The form suhteita is used when the object is indefinite or expressed in the partitive case, for example after verbs that require the partitive.

In usage, suhe describes both concrete and abstract relations. Common contexts include interpersonal or professional connections, networking, and the state of relations between entities. Because Finnish often marks indefinite or partial objects with the partitive, suhteita appears in sentences where the object is not treated as a complete, countable set. For example: “Minulla on useita suhteita alallani” (I have several relationships in my field); “Suhteet maiden välillä ovat kehittyneet” (Relations between countries have developed); “Suhteita koskevat tiedot ovat luottamuksellisia” (Information concerning relationships is confidential).

Overall, suhteita functions as the grammatically appropriate form in many statements about multiple, indefinite, or partial relationships, while the root suhde and the form suhteet are also common in other grammatical cases.