määrät

Määrät is the nominative plural form of the Finnish noun määrä, meaning amount or quantity. In everyday Finnish, määrät refers to more than one quantity or to the concept of quantity in general. The singular form määrä is used for a single quantity, while määrät denotes multiple quantities or a category of quantities.

Usage is broad. In ordinary speech, määrät is used when discussing several different amounts: for example, different amounts of milk in a recipe or different quantities of materials in a project. In statistics and research, määrät can mean the counts or measurements recorded for a sample, group, or dataset. The word often appears in collocations such as lukumäärä (a count or numerical quantity), erilaisia määriä (various amounts), and references to specific measurable extents like rahamäärä (sum of money) or kappalemäärä (count of units).

In official or technical language, määrät is commonly used to speak about quantities across items, times, or measurements. It can describe both discrete counts, such as how many items have been produced, and continuous quantities, such as volumes or weights, depending on context. The term is closely related to compound forms like lukumäärä, which explicitly emphasizes numerical count, and to other context-specific phrases such as rahamäärä or tilavuusmäärä where appropriate.

See also: määrä, lukumäärä, rahamäärä, kappalemäärä, määräaika, määräraha.