loistavien

Loistavien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective loistava, meaning brilliant or splendid. It is used to describe a noun that is in the genitive case or to indicate possession or association with brilliance. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so loistavien appears when the noun it modifies is plural and in the genitive.

Morphology and usage: loistava is the base form. The typical related forms include loistava (nominative singular), loistavan (genitive singular), loistavaa (partitive singular), loistavat (nominative plural), loistavien (genitive plural), and loistavia (partitive plural). Thus, loistavien specifically marks genitive plural, used with nouns in genitive, for example loistavien tähtien valossa, meaning in the light of the brilliant stars.

Examples: Loistavien tähtien valossa. This phrase is commonly found in descriptive or literary Finnish to convey radiance or splendor associated with multiple stars. Another example is loistavien rakennusten arkkitehtuuria, meaning the architecture of the brilliant buildings. These usages illustrate how loistavien functions as a grammatical form rather than an independent word with a standalone meaning.

Notes: Loistavien is not generally a proper noun or a fixed term; its role is entirely grammatical. It may appear in poetry, prose, or descriptive writing where adjectives modify plural nouns in the genitive case.