puolisoita

Puolisoita is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun puoliso, meaning spouse or partner. Puoliso refers to a person’s husband or wife, and can also denote a partner in a registered or legal partnership. The form puolisoita functions as the object of a sentence when the quantity is indefinite or when the action requires the partitive case.

In Finnish grammar, the partitive plural arises in various contexts, such as with negation, with expressions of partiality, or after numerals that call for the partitive in the plural. The word puolisoita is therefore encountered primarily in sentences describing multiple spouses or in linguistic or genealogical contexts rather than in everyday conversation about one’s own spouse. Because Finland recognizes monogamous marriage, references to “several spouses” are uncommon in ordinary discourse and are more likely to appear in hypothetical, historical, or comparative discussions.

The base term is puoliso, and related terms include aviopuoliso (formal or legal term for a spouse) and puolisoiden (genitive plural) as part of broader inflection patterns. As a grammatical form, puolisoita does not denote a separate concept independent of puoliso; it is simply the way the noun is inflected to reflect quantity and case.

Overall, puolisoita is a niche grammatical form used to refer to multiple spouses in the partitive plural, and its occurrence reflects Finnish noun inflection rather than any distinct category of people.