vuosisatojen

Vuosisatojen is the genitive plural form of vuosisata, the Finnish word for a century or a period of one hundred years. The word vuosisata itself is formed from vuosi (year) and sata (hundred), and its genitive plural vuosisatojen is used to express possession or association with multiple centuries, for example when describing relationships, durations, or events that span more than one century.

In Finnish, vuosisatojen is commonly found in historical and analytical writing. It appears in phrases such as vuosisatojen kuluessa, meaning across the centuries, and vuosisatojen aikana, meaning during the centuries. The form helps to convey long-term perspectives and to refer to time scales larger than a single century without specifying an exact number of years.

Related forms include vuosisadat, the nominative plural used when centur ies themselves function as the subject of a sentence, and vuosisadan, the genitive singular meaning “of the century.” The term is primarily a linguistic and historical construction, useful for precise description of events, developments, or influences that unfold over extended periods.

Overall, vuosisatojen serves as a concise tool in Finnish to discuss long-range history and inter-century relationships, reflecting how languages express complex temporal concepts through case forms.