miljoonien

Miljoonien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun miljoona, meaning “million.” It functions as a determiner or modifier indicating a quantity that relates to millions, or signaling possession or association with a large number of millions in a phrase.

In usage, miljoonien appears in constructions that express “millions of” or “the millions of” when the following noun is in a dependent case such as partitive or genitive. It is common in formal or written Finnish and in statistical, economic, or media contexts. For example, phrases like miljoonien eurojen arvoinen esine or miljoonien ihmisten määrä illustrate how the form links a noun to a large-scale quantity without using a numeral by itself. The exact case of the following noun depends on the sentence structure and the specific meaning being conveyed.

Grammar and morphology: miljoona declines like a typical -a noun in Finnish. Its nominative plural is miljoonat, while the genitive plural is miljoonien. The form is distinct from the nominative plural and from the partitive forms such as miljoonia or miljoonaa, which appear in other syntactic contexts. Miljoonien is therefore a specialized inflection used to convey large-scale quantity or association with millions.

See also: miljoona, Finnish numeral inflection, number expressions in Finnish.