osittaisia

Osittaisia is a Finnish adjective form meaning partial or incomplete. It is the plural partitive form of the adjective osittainen, derived from osa meaning “part” with the adjectival suffix -ttainen. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, so osittaisia is used with plural nouns in the partitive case, for example osittaisia ratkaisuja (partial solutions), osittaisia tietoja (partial information), or osittaisia tuloksia (partial results). The phrase communicates that only part of something is being referred to.

The term is common in everyday language, research reports, statistics, and mathematics. In statistics, one might speak of osittaisia tietoja or osittaisia tilastotietoja to indicate incomplete data. In mathematics, osittainen is used in phrases such as osittainen derivaatta, meaning partial derivative. The corresponding noun phrases include osittaiset ratkaisut (partial solutions) and osittaisia havaintoja (partial observations). The usage contrasts with synonyms like puutteellinen (lacking) or kokonainen (complete) in contexts where a full set is contrasted with a subset.

In Finnish, the form osittaisia is not a separate lemma but a grammatical inflection of the adjective osittainen; other inflected forms include osittainen (singular nominative) and osittaisia (plural partitive).