Suuruiset

Suuruiset is a Finnish word that refers to the plural form of the concept of size or magnitude. In Finnish, suurus means size, dimension, or magnitude, and suuruiset functions as an adjective form used to describe multiple quantities or scales. The term is most often encountered in technical, scientific, and mathematical Finnish, where researchers discuss different magnitudes, values, or measurements.

Grammatical note: suuruiset is used to modify plural nouns and agrees with them in number. Finnish adjectives decline to reflect the number and case of the nouns they describe, so suuruiset appears whenever the noun it accompanies is in the plural and in the nominative case (and adjusts in other cases accordingly in longer phrases).

Usage and context: In practice, suuruiset appears in phrases such as "suuruiset arvot" (the magnitudes or large values) or "suuruiset mittayksiköt" (the magnitudes of measurement units) within scientific writing or data analysis. It conveys a sense of scale or scale-related properties across different measurements, datasets, or theoretical quantities.

Relation to related terms: The concept is connected to suurus (size, magnitude) and to terms like arvo (value) and mittakaava (scale). While everyday Finnish tends to use more common descriptors like suuret or suuret arvot, suuruiset is a precise, technical option when emphasizing multiple magnitudes or scales.

See also: suurus, arvo, mittakaava, kvantiteetti.