kokemusten

Kokemusten is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun kokemus, meaning “experience” or “an experience.” In Finnish, the genitive plural is used to indicate possession or association with more than one experience, and it often translates to “of experiences” or “experiences” in English depending on the context. It is one of several inflected forms of kokemus, which also include kokemukset (nominative plural), kokemuksia (partitive plural), kokemuksen (genitive singular), and kokemuksissa (inessive plural).

It commonly appears in idioms and fixed phrases such as kokemusten mukaan (“according to the experiences”), kokemusten karttuminen (“the accumulation of experiences”), and kokemusten valossa (“in light of the experiences”). It is used when referring to experiences possessed by a group or when discussing experiences in general, and it contrasts with the singular genitive muodossa kokemuksen and with the nominative plural kokemukset.

Origin: kokemus derives from the verb kokea, “to experience,” with a nominalizing suffix -mus, forming an abstract noun. The genitive plural is formed by adding -en to the plural stem, yielding kokemusten. In typical Finnish grammar, the form is chosen to agree with number and case requirements in a sentence, and знает its role as a possessive or relational marker for multiple experiences.