Vuodet

Vuodet is Finnish for years and functions as the plural of vuosi. It refers to calendar years as discrete time units or to spans of time measured in years. In everyday language, vuodet can denote both specific periods on a timeline and more general multi-year intervals. Common contexts include historical summaries, statistical time series, and references to recent or distant years. For example, vuodet 1990–1999 marks the decade from 1990 to 1999, and phrases like viimeiset vuodet mean the most recent years.

Grammatical note: vuodet is the nominative plural. The genitive plural is vuosien, and the partitive forms include vuotta (singular partitive) and vuosia (plural partitive). After numerals, the partitive form is typically used, for instance kolm years: kolme vuotta. In phrases such as useita vuosia, the plural partitive vuosia is used.

Related terms include kalenterivuosi for a calendar year, vuosisata for a century, and vuosikymmen for a decade. The concept of years is central across disciplines such as history, finance, and demographics, where data and narratives are often organized by calendar years or by ranges of years. Vuodet thus function as a basic unit in Finnish time expressions, enabling precise references to past, present, and future periods.