määritteisiä
Määritteisiä is Finnish linguistic term used to describe a class of modifiers that specify or limit the referent of a noun phrase. The word is formed from määrite, meaning a defining property, attribute or determiner, with the -isiä suffix indicating a plural or collective category. In practice, määritteisiä encompass a range of determiner-like elements that contribute to the identification of the head noun.
These modifiers include demonstratives (such as tämä, tuo), possessives (minun, hänen), numerals (kolme, sata) and other
Syntactically, määritteisiä typically appear before the noun they modify and can interact with adjectives and the
In Finnish grammar discussions, määritteisiä are often treated as a broad category of determinants or determiners