läheisiään

Läheisiään is a Finnish noun phrase meaning their close ones, or their next of kin. The term is formed from the adjective or noun läheinen, meaning close or intimate, with the third-person plural possessive suffix, and is used to refer to people who belong to or are emotionally or relationally close to someone else. In practice, läheisiään can denote family members, close friends, or other persons considered part of a person’s inner circle.

The phrase is commonly encountered in contexts where privacy or personal information is discussed, such as medical, social, or legal matters. For example, it might appear in sentences about safeguarding the rights or information of someone’s close ones, or in descriptions of decisions that affect those people. Because it refers to others’ relations rather than one’s own, läheisiään is typically used by speakers who are talking about somebody else’s connections rather than their own.

In everyday Finnish, related forms such as läheiset (the close ones, as a plural noun) and läheisiä (partitive plural) are used to express similar ideas, with läheisiään serving a possessive construction that points to what belongs to or concerns someone else’s close people. The concept of “close ones” is broad in Finnish usage, encompassing kin, close friends, and trusted individuals in a person’s social network.

See also: läheiset, läheisiä, läheinen, perhe.