materiaalisia

Materiaalisia is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective materiaalinen, meaning material or physical. In Finnish grammar, materiaalisia is the partitive plural form used to modify nouns in the partitive case, and it denotes material, tangible, or physical aspects. It is not a standalone noun, but an attributive form used in phrases such as materiaalisia resursseja or materiaalisia tuotteita, where the nouns are indefinite or part of a larger quantity. The term is commonly used in contexts such as economics, sociology, design, and philosophy to contrast material (physical) factors with immaterial or digital ones.

In practice, materiaalisia describes things made of matter or having a material nature, as opposed to immateriaalinen (immaterial) or henkinen (mental). It often occurs with plural nouns to indicate tangible goods or resources: materiaalisia välineitä (physical tools), materiaalisia hyödykkeitä (material commodities). Grammatically, the form arises from the adjective ending -inen when inflected for partitive plural. The corresponding nominative plural form is materiaaliset, used when the subject is in the nominative.

See also: immateriaalinen, materiaalinen, materiaali.