lisääntyneitä

Lisääntyneitä is a Finnish inflected form of the participial adjective lisääntynyt, meaning “increased” or “grown.” It is the plural partitive form used to modify a plural noun in the partitive case. The formation reflects Finnish grammar where adjectives and participles agree with the case and number of the noun they describe.

Usage and examples

Lisääntyneitä typically appears in contexts that refer to numbers or quantities that have risen relative to a previous period. Common constructions include phrases such as lisääntyneitä tapauksia (increased cases/incidents), lisääntyneitä riskejä (increased risks), or lisääntyneitä kuolemia (increased deaths). The form signals that the amount of the described item is not fully counted or is treated as an indefinite portion within larger statistics or reports.

Relation to other forms

The root form lisääntynyt is the singular nominative. The nominative plural form is lisääntyneet. The form lisääntyneitä is specifically the plural partitive, used when the object is indefinite, partial, or not fully enumerated. Finnish adjectives and participles decline to agree with the noun they modify in case and number, so different forms (such as lisääntyneet vs. lisääntyneitä) appear depending on the syntactic role of the noun.

Context and register

Lisääntyneitä is common in formal, statistical, and scientific writing, including epidemiology, demography, and environmental reporting. It conveys a quantitative sense of change and is often used to describe trends, outbreaks, or comparative analyses.