Vahingoittumattomia

Vahingoittumattomia is a Finnish term used to refer to people who have not sustained injuries in a particular event. It is the partitive plural form of the adjective vahingoittumaton, meaning unharmed or undamaged, and can be used as a substantive to denote those individuals collectively.

In practice, vahingoittumattomia appears in news reports, emergency communications, and incident documentation to distinguish uninjured individuals from those who were injured. The phrase emphasizes the absence of physical harm among a group involved in an accident, disaster, or other hazardous situation. It is typically used when the focus is on outcomes for people rather than on property or logistics.

Etymologically, the word combines vahingoittaa (to injure) with a negative prefix to form vahingoittumaton (not harmed). The plural partitive form vahingoittumattomia is then used when referring to an indefinite number of unharmed persons within a larger context.

Related Finnish terms include vahingoittunut (injured) and vahingoittuneet (the injured). The concept of vahingoittumattomuus (the state of being unharmed) appears in broader discussions of safety, risk, and resilience, though it is more often encountered in everyday language than in technical literature.

Notes: Finnish syntax requires case forms based on sentence structure, so vahingoittumattomia may appear in headlines or fragments for conciseness. In complete sentences, one might say “ihmisiä, jotka eivät joutuneet vammojen uhriksi,” or simply “uninjured people.”