tilapäisiä

Tilapäisiä is the partitive plural form of the Finnish adjective tilapäinen, meaning temporary or provisional. It is used to describe plural nouns when the noun phrase is in the partitive case or when indicating an indefinite quantity. Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun in number and case, and tilapäinen follows standard declension; its partitive plural form is tilapäisiä.

In practice, tilapäisiä appears before a plural noun in partitive case, for example: tilapäisiä ratkaisuja (temporary solutions), tilapäisiä työntekijöitä (temporary workers), tilapäisiä ongelmia (temporary problems). The form signals that the described items are not permanent and that the reference is to an ongoing but non-final state.

Usage notes and nuance: tilapäisiä is commonly used in contexts such as business, administration, and everyday speech to refer to measures, arrangements, or personnel that are intended to last only for a short period. The word is a direct inflected form of tilapäinen and cannot stand alone without a noun it modifies.

Etymology and related forms: tilapäisiä derives from tilapäinen, formed with the suffix -inen. Related forms include tilapäinen (nominative singular, meaning temporary), tilapäisesti (adverb, meaning temporarily), and the corresponding plural nominative tilapäiset.

Translations: tilapäisiä translates to temporary or provisional in English, with nuance dependent on context (short-term measures, temporary arrangements, or interim solutions).