riistojen

Riistojen is the genitive plural form of riista, the Finnish term for wild game or wildlife, especially animals hunted for food or sport. It is used to express possession or relation to wild game, and appears in phrases such as riistojen hoito (the care or management of wild game) and riistojen kanta (the population of game). In everyday language the more common compound is riistanhoito, but riistojen hoito is also found in descriptive or legal contexts.

Riista refers to wildlife that is hunted or managed as game. The plural nominative is riistat, while the genitive plural is riistojen, and the partitive plural is riistoja. The form riistojen is used after prepositions or in compound-like expressions to indicate "of the game" or "related to the game," for example riistojen määrä (the number/quantity of game) or riistojen metsästys (hunting of game).

In Finnish wildlife management and hunting discourse, riistojen and related terms occur in official texts and everyday speech. They appear in discussions of population assessment, harvest controls, hunting seasons, quotas, and the supply of wild game meat. The vocabulary surrounding riista includes related concepts such as riistanhoito (game management), riistalajit (game species), and riistalaki or metsästyslaki (laws regulating hunting and wildlife governance). The form riistojen functions as a grammatical tool to express relationships and ownership concerning wild game within these contexts.