tekijäitä

Tekijöitä is the plural partitive form of the Finnish noun tekijä, which means a person who creates or brings something into being. Tekijä can refer to an author, artist, designer, inventor, worker, or any creator of a work or result. In a legal context tekijä may also mean the perpetrator of an act. The word is derived from the verb tehdä, “to do” or “to make,” with the agent suffix -jä.

Grammatically, tekijä has several forms: the nominative singular tekijä, the partitive singular tekijää, the nominative plural tekijät, and the partitive plural tekijöitä. Tekijöitä is the partitive plural form and is used when the referents are indefinite or when the sentence requires the partitive case, such as after certain verbs or expressions. Examples include Tekijöitä on useita projektissa and Tarvitaan tekijöitä.

Tekijöitä are used across contexts to denote creators or causal agents. In the arts and humanities they refer to writers, painters, musicians, and other contributors; in industry and science they can denote makers and originators of outputs. In legal language tekijä can also indicate the perpetrator of a crime or wrongdoing. In economics, tekijä appears in compounds such as tuotannontekijät, meaning “factors of production,” where the sense is closer to “factor” than to a single person.

See also: Tekijänoikeus, Tekijänoikeuslaki, tekijä (disambiguation).