tavaraa

Tavaraa is the partitive form of the Finnish noun tavara, meaning a thing, an article, or more broadly goods or merchandise. It is used to refer to material possessions, supplies, or substances in an indefinite amount, rather than to discrete, counted items. In everyday language, tavaraa often denotes the contents of a space or a collection of items when the exact quantity is not specified. For example, "Minulla on paljon tavaraa" means I have a lot of stuff, and "Kauppa myy tavaraa" can refer to goods sold by a shop.

In Finnish grammar, tavara is the base form; its inflected forms include tavaran (genitive), tavaraa (partitive singular), tavaroita (partitive plural), and tavarat (nominative plural). The partitive tavaraa is common with expressions of quantity or indefiniteness and with verbs that require a partitive object, such as omistaa vähän tavaraa (own a little stuff) or olla tavaraa jäljellä (have goods left).

The word tavara is a native Finnish term and constitutes a basic element of everyday vocabulary. It is widely used across contexts ranging from personal possession to commerce and inventory management. While tavara can refer to a single item in some contexts, its primary sense is collective or indefinite, emphasizing the substance or category of items rather than their exact count.

See also: Finnish language, noun declension, partitive case.