ihmisillä

Ihmisillä is Finnish for the plural adessive form of ihminen (human, people). It is used to indicate a group of people as the location or possessor in a sentence, for example “ihmisillä on oikeuksia” meaning “people have rights.” The form is the plural version of the adessive case, created by adding the suffix -llä/-llä to the plural nominative stem.

In practice, ihmisillä appears in statements about human groups, society, or shared characteristics. It is common in everyday language as well as in social sciences when discussing human populations, behaviors, or rights. The construction emphasizes the group as the referent, rather than an individual, and it can pair with verbs of possession, existence, or attributes (for example, “Ihmisillä on velvollisuuksia” or “Ihmisillä on mahdollisuuksia”).

Notes on usage and nuance: while ihminen and ihmiset refer to an individual or a group of individuals respectively, ihmisillä shifts focus to the collective group as the subject or beneficiary in a statement. The genitive form of people, ihmisistä or ihmisten, is used to denote “of people” or “people’s,” which is a different grammatical function from the adessive plural form ihmisillä.

Examples:

- Ihmisillä on monia oikeuksia.

- Ihmisillä on kyky tehdä valintoja.

- Tutkimus tarkastelee ihmisten käyttäytymistä ja sitä, miten ihmisillä on erilaisia tarpeita.