vaateiden

Vaateiden is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun vaatteet, which means clothes or garments. In Finnish, the genitive plural is used to express possession or association, and it appears in noun phrases to indicate “of the clothes” or “the clothes’.”

Common uses include describing quantities, characteristics, or ownership related to clothing. Examples are vaatteiden määrä (the number of clothes), vaatteiden säilytys (storage of clothes), vaatteiden hinta (the price of the clothes), and vaatteiden omistajat (the owners of the clothes). The form also appears in phrases such as kaikkien vaatteiden väri (the color of all the clothes) or vaatteiden kunto (the condition of the clothes).

Morphologically, vaateiden is derived from the plural noun vaatteet (clothes). The genitive plural suffix -iden is attached to the stem, producing vaatteiden. The corresponding genitive singular form is vaatteen (the price of a garment, for example). These inflected forms are used inside noun phrases, often with numerals or determiners, to express possession or relation.

Notes on usage: vaateiden serves to link a property to the entire set of clothes or to indicate ownership, rather than referring to a single item. It is a standard grammatical form in Finnish and appears across many contexts involving clothing, fashion, or wardrobe inventories.

See also: vaatteet (clothes), vaatekappale (garment), Finnish grammar and genitive case.