kausiluonteisten

Kausiluonteisten is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective kausiluonteinen, which means seasonal or periodic. It is used to express possession or association with multiple seasonal things, often in relation to another noun in the genitive case, such as products, jobs, or activities.

Etymology and grammar: The word is built from kausi meaning season and luonteinen meaning characteristic. The base adjective takes the -inen ending, and its plural genitive form is -isten, yielding kausiluonteisten. In sentences it typically appears alongside a noun in genitive: kausiluonteisten tuotteiden (the seasonal products’), kausiluonteisten töiden (the seasonal jobs’).

Usage: Kausiluonteinen describes phenomena that vary with the seasons rather than being constant year-round. It is common in economic, agricultural, tourism, and employment contexts to describe demand, labor, or activity that follows an annual cycle. While kausiluonteisten is usually part of a larger noun phrase, it can appear in clauses that refer to “the seasonal ones” in context, though its function is primarily as an adjective in genitive plural.

Examples:

- Kysyntä kausiluonteisten tuotteiden aikana on suuri. (Demand for seasonal products is high.)

- Kausiluonteisten työntekijöiden määrä vaihtelee vuodenaikojen mukaan. (The number of seasonal workers varies with the seasons.)

- Verkkokaupassa kausiluonteisten tuotteiden varastot seuraavat sesonkeja.

See also: kausiluonteinen, seasonal, Finnish adjective inflection, genitive in Finnish syntax.