Tuhansilla

Tuhansilla is the plural adessive form of the Finnish noun tuhka? Correction: "tuhat" meaning thousand. It is used to express quantity with a noun in the adessive case, and it commonly translates roughly to “thousands of” in English. For example, tuhansilla ihmisillä on unelmia means “thousands of people have dreams.” The form functions as a determiner of the noun it accompanies and is not a stand-alone numeral.

Morphology and use. The word tuhat declines in several cases, and tuhansilla specifically appears when the subject or object is in the adessive plural (with, on, at). It combines the stem tuhans- with the adessive plural ending -illa, indicating a non-precise or large quantity tied to a plural noun. The construction is typical in both written and spoken Finnish, especially in descriptions of scale, statistics, or general statements about groups or sets.

Relation to other forms. Other common forms of the same root include tuhannet (nominative plural), tuhansia (partitive plural), and tuhansien (genitive plural). Each form serves different syntactic roles; tuhansilla specifically tasks with the adessive function of indicating “with thousands of” or “on thousands of” when paired with another plural noun in adessive.

Examples. Tuhansilla ihmisillä on unelmia. Translation: Thousands of people have dreams. This illustrates how tuhansilla modifies a plural noun in the adessive case to convey a large, indefinite quantity.

See also. related forms: tuhannet, tuhansia, tuhansien. End of article.