kollegoiden

Kollegoiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun kollega, meaning "of colleagues" or "the colleagues’." The base word kollega is a loanword in Finnish, derived from Swedish kollega and ultimately from the English word colleague. In Finnish grammar, the genitive plural marks possession or association and is formed with suffixes such as -iden for many foreign-origin nouns; kollega therefore takes the form kollegoiden.

Kollegoiden is commonly used in phrases describing relationships, ownership, or opinions among coworkers. For example: kollegoiden välinen yhteistyö, meaning the collaboration between colleagues; kollegoiden mielipiteet, meaning the colleagues’ opinions. In sentences such as Kollegoiden mukaan tämä ratkaisu on paras, kollegoiden denotes the source or authority of the statement.

When used as a dependent noun phrase, kollegoiden can modify a following noun to express belonging to the group of colleagues. It is standard in formal or written Finnish and appears less frequently in casual speech compared to the singular kollega, which refers to an individual colleague.