myönteisiä

Myönteisiä is a Finnish adjective form derived from myönteinen and is used to describe things, attitudes, or results that are positive, favorable, or approving. It conveys a constructive or favorable evaluation rather than neutrality or negativity.

In Finnish, myönteisiä is the plural partitive or accusative form. It is commonly used with plural nouns, for example: myönteisiä vaikutuksia (positive effects), myönteisiä vastauksia (positive responses), or myönteisiä tuloksia (positive outcomes). In predicate position, the plural nominative can appear as in: Tulokset olivat myönteisiä. The word can also appear in other cases and forms according to Finnish grammar, such as myönteisissä (plural inessive), depending on the sentence structure.

Usage and nuance: myönteisiä emphasizes favorable assessment, approval, or beneficial characteristics. It is widely used in formal writing, research reports, media, and everyday language. While it overlaps with the more neutral or general positive sense of positiivinen, myönteinen often carries a connotation of approval or constructive value.

Related terms: myönteinen (the base singular form), positiivinen (more neutral or widely used for “positive”), suotuisa (favorable), and their respective inflected forms.

See also: myönteinen, positiivinen, negatiivinen.