eettisiä

Eettisiä is Finnish for ethical or related to ethics, and it functions as the partitive plural form of the adjective eettinen. It is used to describe indefinite quantities or aspects of ethics when the object is not fully specified, for example in phrases like eettisiä kysymyksiä (ethical questions) or eettisiä periaatteita (ethical principles).

In Finnish, adjectives decline to match the noun in number and case. The singular partitive of eettinen is eettistä (e.g., eettistä ohjetta), while the plural nominative is eettiset (e.g., eettiset ohjeet) and the plural partitive is eettisiä (e.g., eettisiä ohjeita). The form eettisiä specifically appears with plural nouns in the partitive case and is common in everyday and formal language alike. The form of the adjective will change depending on the noun it modifies and the grammatical context, such as kolmea eettistä kysymystä vs. kolmea eettisiä kysymyksiä.

Common contexts for eettisiä include business ethics, medical and research ethics, journalism, and public policy. Collocations frequently seen in Finnish include eettiset ohjeet, eettiset periaatteet, eettiset vaatimukset, and eettisiä kysymyksiä. The term is often paired with nouns describing duties, guidelines, principles, and questions that require normative judgment or moral consideration. Related concepts in Finnish are etiikka (ethics as a field) and eettisyys (morality or ethical character).

Etymologically, eettinen stems from ethics-related roots in Finnish and functions across discourse to denote morality, right and wrong, and normative evaluation. The word is standard in academic, professional, and media contexts, and its inflected forms, including eettisiä, are a common part of everyday Finnish.