Vauvoilla

Vauvoilla is the plural adessive form of vauva, a Finnish noun meaning "baby" or "infant." In Finnish, the adessive case (-lla/-llä) marks location or, in possessive constructions, the possessor. When used with the verb olla (to have), vauvoilla indicates that something belongs to the babies: for example, Vauvoilla on uudet lelut means "The babies have new toys."

Morphology and usage notes: The base noun vauva has the plural nominative form vauvat. The corresponding plural adessive form is vauvoilla. A related form is vauvoille, the allative case meaning "for babies" or "to the babies," commonly used in labeling or phrases describing products or services intended for infants, such as tuotteet vauvoille ("products for babies").

Common contexts: Vauvoilla appears frequently in everyday speech about families, childcare, and parenting. It is also found in marketing, customer communications, and service descriptions aimed at households with young children. The distinction between vauvoilla (possession or location by babies) and vauvoille (for babies) is important for clear expression in Finnish.

Etymology and related forms: Vauva is a native Finnish word for an infant, with cognates in other Finnic languages. The form vauvoilla is a standard inflected variant produced by Finnish morphology, reflecting how possession or location is expressed in plural terms.

See also: vauva; Finnish grammar; Finnish cases; allative and adessive forms.