eläimiään

Eläimiään is a Finnish word form meaning “their animals” or, more generally, the animals belonging to the subject referred to in the sentence. It is not a separate lexical item but a grammatical construction that combines the noun eläin (animal) in its plural partitive form eläimiä with a third-person possessive suffix. The result is a single word that encodes both plurality and possession.

In Finnish, possession is expressed through suffixes attached to the noun rather than with separate pronouns. Eläimiään therefore marks that the animals belong to someone else, with the exact possessor determined by the surrounding context. The form is common when the object of a verb refers to animals owned by a group or by someone other than the speaker.

Usage tends to occur in everyday speech and writing about pets, livestock, or groups that share ownership of animals. It appears in clauses describing what someone does with those animals or their state and condition.

Esimerkkejä: He pitivät eläimiään terveinä. (They kept their animals healthy.) He huolehtivat eläimiään hyvin. (They took good care of their animals.) The phrase illustrates how Finnish conveys both number and possession in a single unit, allowing concise expressions about ownership of animals.