eriteltyjen

Eriteltyjen is a Finnish grammatical form used in modern Finnish to mark a possessive relation involving a plural noun described by the adjective eritelty, which means differentiated or distinguished. Specifically, eriteltyjen is the genitive plural form of eritelty, and it appears in noun phrases where the head noun is plural and in the genitive case, signaling “of the differentiated [things]” or “belonging to the differentiated [things].”

In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. When the adjective eritelty modifies a plural noun in a genitive construction, it takes the suffix -jen, yielding eriteltyjen. This form is common in technical, statistical, and organizational contexts where items or categories are distinguished or segmented. For example, phrases like eriteltyjen tuotteiden määrä (the amount of the differentiated products) or eriteltyjen aineiden koostumus (the composition of the differentiated substances) illustrate typical usage.

Etymology links eriteltyjen to the base adjective eritelty, derived from erittely or erottaa, related to differentiation or separation. The term is primarily productive in formal writing, reports, and datasets that involve categorization, segmentation, or comparison of distinct groups. While not a standalone concept, eriteltyjen functions as a functional grammatical form that enables precise expression of possession and relation to a set of items that are distinguished in some criteria.