tyhjä

Tyhjä is a Finnish adjective meaning empty or containing nothing. It describes objects, spaces, or states that have no content, such as a box with nothing inside or a room without occupants. The term can refer to literal emptiness as well as more abstract notions of lack or absence, including empty space or an empty container.

Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun in number and case. For tyhjä, the basic forms include singular nominative tyhjä, singular genitive tyhjän, singular partitive tyhjää, and singular inessive tyhjässä; in plural they appear as tyhjät (nominative), tyhjien (genitive), tyhjiä (partitive), and tyhjissä (inessive). In sentences: Laatikko on tyhjä. Hän näki tyhjän huoneen. Hän kokee tyhjiä tunteita. The forms change to reflect the noun they modify, for example tyhjä laatikko (an empty box) or tyhjät tilat (empty spaces).

Tyhjä is a native Finnish word. Its related forms include tyhjentää (to empty), tyhjentyminen or tyhjentyä (to become empty), and tyhjyys (emptiness). These derivative words are used to describe processes of emptiness or the state of being empty.

In computing and data contexts, tyhjä appears in common phrases such as tyhjä merkkijono (empty string) and tyhjä taulukko (empty array). The term is widely understood in technical writing to indicate the absence of content within a data structure or string, as well as in everyday language to describe physical emptiness.