keräämien

Keräämien is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the genitive plural of the attributive past participle keräämä, which itself derives from the verb kerätä meaning to collect or gather. In Finnish, participles can be used as adjectives inside noun phrases, and keräämä describes something that has been collected.

In practice, keräämien is used to connect a phrase describing collected items to another noun in the genitive case. The common structure is keräämien + [genitive plural noun], expressing a relationship of the first noun to the second. For example, keräämien marjojen laatu means “the quality of the collected berries,” and keräämien tarvikkeiden arvo means “the value of the collected equipment.” It is frequently found in written, formal, or technical language such as reports, inventories, or legal texts.

Keräämien is distinct from keräämät, which is an attributive form used to denote the items themselves as having been collected (for example, keräämät marjat = the berries that were collected). The genitive plural form keräämien serves to indicate possession or association with another noun in genitive, rather than to describe the items directly.

Etymology and scope: keräämä is a participial form derived from kerätä. The keräämien form follows standard Finnish declension for participial adjectives in the genitive plural, and its use is confined mainly to noun phrases where a relation to another noun in genitive is being expressed.