ennätyksen

Ennätyksen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun ennätys, which means "record", "best performance", or "highest/lowest achieved value". As a genitive form, ennätyksen indicates possession, measurement, target, or object in constructions where English would use "of the record", "record's", or sometimes simply "record" as a direct object.

In usage, ennätyksen appears in sentences like Hän rikkoi ennätyksen ("He/She broke the record") and Ennätyksen mukaan kilpailun voitti X ("According to the record, competitor X won"). It also occurs in fixed expressions such as ennätyksen haltija ("record holder"), ennätysaika ("record time"), and ennätysmäärä ("record number/amount").

The word is common in sports reporting, statistics, journalism and everyday conversation when referring to best performances, sales highs, attendance peaks and similar benchmarks. It combines readily with other words to form compounds and modifiers, and can be inflected into other Finnish cases and numbers (nominative ennätys, partitive ennätystä, plural ennätykset, etc.).

Because ennätys is a basic, frequently used noun in Finnish, its genitive form ennätyksen is likewise common and appears in both formal and informal contexts whenever possession, comparison or objecthood related to a record is expressed.