Tahattomien

Tahattomien is a Finnish grammatical form, not a standalone concept. It is the genitive plural form of the adjective tahaton, meaning unintentional or inadvertent. The form tahattomien is used before plural nouns in the genitive case to describe things that are not deliberate, for example tahattomien virheiden or tahattomien tekojen. In English this construction roughly corresponds to phrases like “of the unintended errors” or “unintentional acts.”

In practice, tahattomien is most common in formal or technical language, such as legal, medical, or policy texts, where it helps distinguish outcomes or actions that occurred without intent from those that are deliberate. Because Finnish adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, tahattomien appears only as part of a larger noun phrase; it does not stand alone as a noun.

Examples of usage include: Tahattomien virheiden määrän arviointi on keskeinen osa potilasturvallisuusraportteja. The consequences of tahattomien tekojen seuraukset are often addressed differently than those of intentional acts. Lainsäädäntö voi korostaa korvausvastuun tahattomien vahinkojen yhteydessä. These phrases illustrate how the term functions to specify lack of intent.

Related terms include tahallinen (intentional) and tahattomuus (unintentionality). Tahattomien is a descriptive, grammatical tool used to articulate outcomes or actions without deliberate intent.