Yleisiä

Yleisiä is the inflected form of the Finnish adjective yleinen, meaning general or common. It is used to describe plural nouns in the partitive case, indicating that the described traits, items, or phenomena are general rather than specific or individual. In sentences, yleisiä typically accompanies nouns in a partitive plural form, such as yleisiä kysymyksiä or yleisiä virheitä.

In Finnish adjective declension, yleinen has several plural forms: yleiset (nominative plural), yleisten (genitive plural), and yleisiä (partitive plural). The choice of form depends on the grammatical case and the role of the noun in the sentence. The partitive plural yleisiä is commonly found in contexts where the noun is indefinite or not fully counted, which is typical in descriptive or evaluative statements.

Usage and nuances: yleisiä is frequently employed in academic writing, reports, and descriptive prose to convey that something is characteristic of a broad category rather than tied to a single instance. It can pair with nouns denoting ideas, problems, features, questions, or methods to stress their general nature, such as yleisiä piirteitä (general features) or yleisiä ongelmia (general problems).

See also: Finnish grammar, adjectives, partitive case, noun–adjective agreement, generalization in language.