tiimejä

Tiimejä is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun tiimi, meaning a team or small group of people working together to achieve a common goal. Tiimi is a loanword in Finnish, widely used in sports, business, education, and IT, and tiimejä is the form used when referring to an indefinite or non-definite quantity of teams or as the object of a sentence in partitive constructions.

In usage, tiimejä appears in phrases describing non-specified or multiple teams, such as useita tiimejä (several teams) or minulla on useita tiimejä (I have several teams). It is also common in contexts expressing involvement, collaboration, or competition among teams. The partitive plural tiimejä often occurs after numerals and quantifiers, and in sentences where the action affects a portion of teams rather than a definite set.

Grammatical notes: tiimejä is the partitive plural form. Other inflected forms of tiimi include tiimit (nominative plural), tiimien (genitive plural), tiimissä/tiimeissä (inessive/essive), and various other cases derived from tiimi. The word tiimejä should not be confused with tiimit (the nominative plural) or with other case forms of the same noun.

Origin and usage: tiimi as a concept is common across Finnish to describe organized groups working together. The term tiimi, and by extension tiimejä, has become standard in contemporary Finnish for describing teams in workplaces, sports clubs, project groups, and collaborative environments. See also tiimi and tiimityö for related terms.