teoksia

Teos is a Finnish noun meaning a work or piece created by an artist, author, or designer. It covers a broad range of creative outputs, including paintings, sculptures, literary works, musical compositions, films, and architectural or design projects. The term is commonly used to refer to individual items of cultural production as well as to groups of works in a given context.

Teoksia is the partitive plural form of teos and is used when the speaker treats the works as an indefinite amount or a portion of a larger set. For example, a statement like “useita teoksia on esillä” signals that several works are on display, without specifying a precise count. In contrast, teokset (nominative plural) functions as the subject or object in sentences that enumerate or describe multiple items, e.g., “teokset ovat monipuolisia” or “teokset valitaan näyttelyyn.”

In practice, teoksia appears frequently in museum catalogs, exhibition wall texts, art criticism, and scholarly writing. The term is versatile across cultural domains and is not limited to fine arts; it can also refer to significant literary or other artistic outputs. In English, teos or teokset are typically translated as “work” or “artwork,” and the concept is closely related to the idea of an oeuvre, though Finnish usage keeps to teos/teoksia rather than adopting foreign terms.