tarinoitaan

Tarinoitaan is a Finnish noun form meaning "their stories." It represents a third-person plural possessive construction of tarina, used to indicate that the stories belong to a group of people. The base word tarina means "story," and tarinoita is the partitive plural form; tarinoitaan is the inflected form used when the possessor is plural.

The form is commonly used in both spoken and written Finnish whenever a speaker refers to stories told or owned by a group—for example in memoirs, interviews, news reports, or narrative prose. It functions as the object or part of a larger clause in which the group’s narratives are being recounted or discussed. A typical usage is with verbs of telling or recounting, such as kertoa (to tell) or jakaa (to share). For example: They have told their stories can be rendered in Finnish as He ovat kertoneet tarinoitaan.

Tarinoitaan can convey a sense of personal or communal experience, emphasizing that the narratives belong to a collective rather than to an individual. It contrasts with other possessive forms that refer to single owners, such as tarinansa (his/her/its story), or with bare plural tarinoita when possession is not explicitly indicated.

See also: tarina, tarinoita, tarinansa.