hautojen

Hautojen is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun hauta, which means grave or tomb. The form is used to express possession or a relational sense toward multiple graves, such as describing maintenance, location, or other attributes related to graves.

In Finnish, hauta has a plural nominative form haudat (graves). The genitive plural, which is used after a determiner or possessive construction to indicate “of the graves,” is hautojen. This illustrates a typical Finnish pattern where the plural noun takes an additional genitive plural suffix, here produced as -en after the plural stem.

Hautoja and hautoihin are related case forms: hautoja can be the partitive plural (some graves) or a different grammatical usage depending on the sentence, while hautoihin means into the graves or into graves, depending on context. The word hauta appears in contexts such as cemetery administration, archaeology, or discussions of burial practices, where phrases like hautojen hoito (care/maintenance of the graves) are common.

Examples:

- Hautojoiden hoito on kaupungin vastuulla. (Care of the graves is the city’s responsibility.)

- Hautoihin kaivetut kaivannot ovat osa arkeologista tutkimusta. (The excavations into the graves are part of an archaeological study.)

See also hauta, haudata, haudattu, and other Finnish cemetery-related terminology.