tapauksien

Tapauksien is a Finnish genitive plural form of the noun tapaus, meaning "case," "occurrence," or "incident." As a grammatical form, tapauksien is used to express possession or a relationship to a group of cases, such as when talking about quantities, analyses, or descriptions that pertain to multiple instances. The standard nominative plural is tapaukset, while the genitive plural tapauksien appears in constructions like “tapauksien määrä” (the number of cases) or “tapauksien käsittely” (the handling of cases).

In usage, tapauksien functions as the genitive plural complement to another noun, most often a noun that denotes a quantity, study, or category. Examples include tapauksien lukumäärä (the number of cases), tapauksien analyysi (the analysis of cases), and tapauksien käsittely (the processing or handling of cases). The form is common in formal writing, statistics, law, medicine, and research contexts where discussions center on multiple instances rather than a single case.

Etymologically, tapaus derives from Finnish, with tapaukien formed by combining the plural stem tapauks- with the genitive plural ending -ien. This pattern is typical for many Finnish nouns that end in -us or -aus and take the -ien ending in the genitive plural. Tapauksien therefore reflects standard Finnish noun-inflection rather than a unique vocabulary item. Its accurate use requires attention to the surrounding head noun and the overall syntactic structure of the phrase.