tavallisten

Tavallisten is a form of the Finnish adjective tavallinen, meaning "ordinary" or "common." Grammatically, tavallisten is the genitive plural of tavallinen and is used to indicate possession, relationships or attribution for plural nouns (for example tavallisten ihmisten "of ordinary people"). It follows the common Finnish -nen adjective inflection pattern, where the -nen ending in the base form appears in plural and case-marked variants (nominative plural tavalliset, genitive plural tavallisten, partitive plural tavallisia).

Etymology and pronunciation trace back to Finnish tapa ("custom, manner"), from which tavallinen derives the sense of habitual or typical. Pronunciation follows standard Finnish stress on the first syllable; tavallisten is typically rendered phonetically as [ˈtɑvɑlːisten].

Usage examples include descriptive and idiomatic contexts: tavallisten ihmisten arki ("the everyday life of ordinary people"), tavallisten työpäivien rytmi ("the rhythm of ordinary workdays"). The form should be distinguished from the adverb tavallisesti ("usually") and from related adjectives that express degrees of commonness (e.g., yleinen "general, common").

In Finnish morphology studies, tavallisten illustrates regular -nen adjective declension and the application of case endings in plural, making it a frequently cited example in grammar references and language-learning materials.