kansainvälisiä

Kansainvälisiä is the plural partitive form of the Finnish adjective kansainvälinen, meaning “international.” It is used to describe plural nouns in contexts where the noun is in the partitive case or when the reference is indefinite or partial. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun in number and case; kansainväliset is the nominative plural form, kansainvälisiä the partitive plural, and kansainvälisten the genitive plural. Thus kansainväisiä is not a standalone noun but a grammatical inflection of the adjective.

Typical contexts for kansainvälisiä include phrases describing plural, indefinite objects or events in an international scope. For example, kansainvälisiä suhteita (international relations), kansainvälisiä järjestöjä (international organizations), and kansainvälisiä tapahtumia (international events). These phrases show how the partitive plural signals either an indefinite portion of international things or a direct object in sentences that require the partitive case.

Usage notes:

- Kansainvälisiä modifies a plural noun in the partitive case, often with nouns that describe activities, events, or institutions.

- It is one of several inflected forms of kansainvälinen; the choice depends on the grammatical role of the noun it describes.

- The word itself functions as an adjective form and does not stand as an independent noun.