tanssijoita

Tanssijoita is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun tanssija, meaning dancer. It is used to refer to dancers when the exact number or the dancers themselves are not specified, or when the object of the statement is indefinite.

In Finnish grammar, the partitive plural form is commonly used for indefinite quantities, for part of a larger group, or after negation. Tanssijoita is therefore used when talking about dancers in a non-definite sense, or when the sentence context does not designate the dancers as a specific group. It often appears in descriptive text, captions, news reports, or reviews where the focus is on the activity or presence of dancers rather than on named individuals.

Tanssijoita contrasts with other inflectional forms of the same base word. The nominative plural tanssijat refers to the dancers as the subject, while the genitive plural tanssijoiden marks possession or a partitive relationship in a different syntactic role. The choice of form reflects grammatical function rather than a change in meaning to an extent.

Examples:

- Kuvassa on useita tanssijoita. (The picture shows several dancers.)

- En nähnyt tanssijoita, jotka esiintyivät tapahtumassa. (I did not see any dancers who performed at the event.)

Overall, tanssijoita is a standard grammatical form used to refer to dancers in an indefinite or non-specific sense within Finnish prose and dialogue.