Tekstejä

Tekstejä is the partitive plural form of teksti, the Finnish word for text. In Finnish, teksti denotes a unit of written language, such as an article, essay, report, or other passage. The nominative plural is tekstit, while the partitive plural tekstejä is used when the object is indefinite, incomplete, or quantified in a partitive sense.

In practice, tekstejä appears with verbs and determiners that require the partitive case. Examples include "minulla on tekstejä" (I have texts) and "olen lukenut useita tekstejä" (I have read several texts). The form signals that the speaker is not counting exact texts or is referencing texts as a non-specified portion of a larger set.

The term covers a broad range of written content and is common in education, media, and everyday language when discussing multiple works without listing each one individually. The meaning is determined by context and modifiers, such as määrää (amount), useita (several), tai paljon (a lot of), which influence the use of the partitive form.

Etymology traces teksti to Latin textus, with transmission into Finnish through historical language contact and adaptation to Finnish phonology and morphology. As a general term, tekstejä remains a straightforward way to refer to several pieces of writing in everyday Finnish.

See also: teksti, tekstuaalinen, textual study (contextual references may vary by field).