kestävien

Kestävien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective kestävä, which means durable or sustainable. It is not a stand-alone noun; rather, it appears in noun phrases to express possession or association with a plural noun. In use, kestävien modifies the following noun in the genitive plural, for example as kestävien tuotteiden valinta (the selection of durable/sustainable products) or kestävien arvojen ilmentäminen (the embodiment of sustainable values).

In practice, kestävien is common in formal or written Finnish, especially in contexts related to production, policy, and marketing where durability or sustainability is being described. It can describe physical durability, such as tuotteet (products) or ratkaisut (solutions), as well as broader sustainability concepts, such as arvoja (values) or tavoitteita (goals) when speaking about groups or collections. The word is often contrasted with the nominative form kestävät, which would describe the plural subject itself rather than a possessed or associated attribute.

Translations of phrases containing kestävien depend on context. In many cases, the sense is “of durable” or “of sustainable” and aligns with discussions of long-term reliability, environmental responsibility, or social sustainability. As a grammatical form, kestävien serves to link adjectives to plural nouns within complex noun phrases, maintaining Finnish’s agglutinative structure. See also kestävä, kestävyys, and kestävä kehitys for related concepts.