kovuuksien

Kovuuksien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun kovuus, which translates roughly as hardness, firmness, or severity. In Finnish grammar, the genitive plural marks possession or association with multiple items or aspects. The form kovuuksien is commonly encountered in technical, scientific, and descriptive texts when discussing properties that vary across several materials, conditions, or phenomena that share hardness-related characteristics.

Formation and morphology: The base kovuus forms a genitive plural as kovuuksien. The suffix -ien is a standard genitive plural ending for many nouns in the -uus class in Finnish, and the suffix harmonizes with the stem vowels. This form is a grammatical marker rather than a separate lexical item, used to indicate a relationship to multiple hardness-related qualities or measurements.

Usage and examples: Common uses include phrases such as kovuuksien mittaaminen (the measurement of hardness) and kovuuksien vaihtelu (the variation of hardness). Other examples include kovuuksien analyysi (analysis of hardness) or kuvauksia kovuuksien eroista (descriptions of differences in hardness). In everyday language, speakers may refer to kovuudesta or other cases when speaking generally about hardness, but kovuuksien appears in contexts discussing several hardness-related aspects or comparisons.

See also: kovuus (hardness), Finnish grammar, genitive plural. Notes: kovuuksien functions primarily as a grammatical form rather than representing a standalone concept; its usage signals that the discussion concerns multiple hardness-related properties across items or categories.