pienemmien

Pienemmien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish comparative adjective pienempi, meaning “smaller.” In Finnish, adjectives decline for number and case, and the comparative form can also take genitive plural endings. Pienempien is formed from the stem pien- with the comparative suffix -empi and the genitive plural ending -ien, yielding pienempien.

The form is used when the adjective modifies a noun that is itself in the genitive plural, or when the entire phrase is part of a larger genitive construction. This makes pienempien a common component in expressions that compare groups of items or entities, such as “the smaller [ones]” within a larger set.

In practice, pienempi remains the base comparative form, while other related forms include pienempien (genitive plural), pienemmän (genitive singular), and pienempiä (partitive plural). Together they reflect Finnish grammar's system of inflecting adjectives to agree with the noun they describe and to indicate the grammatical role of the noun phrase in a sentence.

See also: pienempi, pienemmät, pienin, pienempiä, pienempien talojen.