tiimejään

Tiimejään is a Finnish grammatical form that means “their teams.” It is a third-person plural possessive construction attached to the plural form of tiimi (team) and is used to indicate ownership by a group of people or organizations. In ordinary Finnish, possession is expressed by combining a noun’s form with a possessive suffix; tiimejään is the specialized form used for possessors who are multiple individuals or entities.

Morphology and use. The phrase tiimejään results from tiimi’s plural partitive tiimejä combined with the third-person plural possessive suffix. It is used when the possessor is plural and the possessed item is teams. The form helps specify that more than one owner shares or controls the teams in question. It appears in both written and spoken Finnish, particularly in contexts involving organizations, clubs, schools, or companies.

Usage notes. Tiimejään is typically found in sentences describing ownership, responsibility, or actions taken by the owners regarding their teams. It works with verbs and other sentence elements in standard Finnish syntax. The surrounding context usually clarifies who the possessors are (for example, a school’s coaches or a company’s departments).

Example. Koulun valmentajat esittelivät tiimejään kilpailussa. (The school’s coaches presented their teams in the competition.)

See also. tiimi; possessive forms in Finnish; Finnish grammar; partitive plural.