Tyypillisiä

Tyypillisiä is the plural partitive form of the Finnish adjective tyypillinen, meaning typical or characteristic. In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so tyypillinen becomes tyypillisiä when describing plural nouns in the partitive or in other contexts that require partitive plural. Related forms include tyypillinen (nominative singular), tyypilliset (nominative plural), tyypillistä (partitive singular) and tyypillisten (genitive plural).

Etymology and background: The Finnish word tyypillinen derives from an older stem used to express constellations or characteristics, and the form is widely believed to have been influenced by Scandinavian languages. The suffix -inen is a common Finnish adjective ending that marks the word as an adjective meaning “characteristic of” or “pertaining to.” The plural partitive tyypillisiä is a standard construction when referring to multiple items described as typical.

Usage and examples: Tyypillisiä is used to denote typical features or characteristic examples within a plural set. For example: Tyypillisiä piirteitä tämän ilmiön ovat ennakko-odotukset ja havaittavat muutokset. Another example: Näiden ryhmien tyypillisiä piirteitä ovat ystävällisyys ja yhteisöllisyys. In predicative use, the singular forms are common, as in Se on tyypillistä (That is typical). Tyypillisiä thus functions as a versatile descriptor for plural nouns and, in its non-plural form, as part of general statements about what is typical.