valitsemien

Valitsemien is a Finnish inflected form derived from the verb valita ("to choose"). Grammatically it functions as the genitive plural of the past active participle valitsema and is used to indicate possession or association by a group of entities that have been chosen. In English it is typically rendered as "of the chosen" or "of those chosen."

The form appears in attributive constructions before nouns to qualify a plural referent, for example: valitsemien edustajien kokous ("the meeting of the chosen representatives"). It is more common in formal, administrative or legal language where lists, selections and appointments are described. Context determines whether the sense is collective (the selected group as a whole) or distributive (each of the selected).

Related forms include valitsema (singular participle), valitut (passive participle or adjective "chosen"), and valitsemisen (the noun meaning "the act of choosing" or "selection"). Possessive and case inflections combine with the participial stem in regular Finnish morphology (for example valitsemieni meaning "of those chosen by me").

Etymologically valita is a common Finnic verb; the participial system exemplified by valitsema reflects productive patterns of verb-to-adjective formation in Finnish, used to create temporally and causally oriented descriptors from verbal roots.