vaateita
Vaateita is a Finnish word that refers to clothing items in an indefinite quantity. In standard Finnish the corresponding partitive plural form is vaatteita, used when talking about some clothes rather than a specific set. The noun vaate itself means a garment or item of clothing. Other common forms of vaate include vaatteet (nominative plural), vaatteiden (genitive plural), and vaatteen (genitive singular), with vaatetta as the partitive singular.
In general use, vaateita is not treated as a separate lexical item from vaatteita in contemporary standard
Examples in standard form include: Minulla on vaatteita. I have clothes; Ostin vaatteita kirpputorilta. I bought
Etymology traces vaate to a native Finnic root for clothing, with inflectional endings forming the various