kyseisiä

Kyseisiä is a Finnish grammatical form used to refer to multiple items or matters that are in question or under discussion. It is the partitive plural of the adjective kyseinen, which translates roughly as "the said," "the aforementioned," or "such." Kyseisiä appears before plural nouns in the partitive case, for example: kyseisiä tapauksia (such cases), kyseisiä asiakirjoja (such documents).

In use, kyseisiä is common in formal or written Finnish, such as journalism, academia, and legal or administrative texts. It signals that the referenced items have already been mentioned, are being discussed, or are being classified as part of a broader category. It often implies a subset or a representative sample of a larger group. Examples: "Kyseisiä tapauksia on ilmennyt useissa maissa" (Such cases have occurred in several countries), and "Emme nähneet kyseisiä todisteita" (We did not see such evidence).

Related forms include kyseiset (nominative plural) for the basic referent in the subject position, and kyseisten (genitive plural) for ownership or relation, as in "kyseisten tapauksien vaikutus" (the effect of the said cases). The root is kyse-, derived from kyseinen, which in turn stems from the Finnish concept of a matter or issue under consideration. Kyseisiä is often contrasted with more general or less formal terms like tällaiset (such, such as these) and with yksittäinen (individual). In practice, kyseisiä provides a precise, formal way to point to items already in the discourse without naming them again.