Taulujen

Taulujen is the genitive plural form of taulu in Finnish. Taulu has several related senses, including a board or panel (such as a chalkboard or notice board) and a painting or picture; in art contexts it refers to a work hung on a wall. The genitive plural taulujen expresses “of the boards” or “of the paintings,” and is used to show possession or association with multiple items. It is formed from the plural taulut by adding the genitive plural ending -ujen (taulut → taulujen). The singular genitive is taulun.

In use, taulujen appears in noun phrases describing quantity or characteristics of a collection, such as “taulujen määrä” (the number of boards/paintings) and “taulujen kehykset” (the frames of the boards/paintings). It can also occur in phrases like “taulujen mukaan” meaning “according to the boards.” In references to artworks, taulujen indicates items within a collection, such as a gallery’s taulujen näyttely (exhibition of paintings).

Relation to other words: Taulujen is related to taulu (singular) and taulut (nominative plural). For data tables or spreadsheets, Finnish uses taulukko rather than taulu; the two words are cognate but belong to different semantic fields. Taulujen thus serves as a grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item, signaling possession or association with multiple boards or paintings within Finnish sentence structure.