Videoiden

Videoiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun video. It denotes a relation to or possession of more than one video, as in videoiden katsominen (watching videos) or videoiden määrä (the number of videos). The nominative plural is videot, while videoiden occurs in genitive contexts.

Video, a loanword from English (ultimately from Latin video, “I see”), is a common term for moving-image media in Finnish. In Finnish, the genitive plural is formed with endings like -iden for many foreign-origin nouns ending in -o. Thus videoiden is the standard genitive plural of video. This form is used to indicate ownership, quantity, or other relations involving multiple videos, typically before another noun or as part of a gerund phrase such as videoiden katsominen.

In practice, videoiden appears in written Finnish to discuss collections (videoiden koko), metadata, or activities related to multiple video items, for example videoiden jakaminen (sharing videos) or videoiden katseluverkosto. It contrasts with the nominative plural videot, which simply means “videos” as the subject or object of a sentence. Both forms are common, depending on the grammatical role in the sentence.