yhteneviä

Yhteneviä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective yhtenevä, meaning identical, equal, or congruent. The form is used to describe plural nouns, typically in the partitive or other non-nominative cases, depending on the syntactic role in the sentence.

Etymology and meaning: The root is yhtene-, related to yhtenäinen, which conveys the idea of unity, uniformity, or consistency. Yhtenevä can describe properties that are the same across items, such as size, shape, or results. The plural form yhteneviä appears when the noun it modifies is plural and in a case that requires the partitive or a corresponding inflection.

Usage and domains: Yhteneviä is common in mathematical, scientific, and everyday Finnish when stating that several items share the same property. Examples include identical shapes, equal measurements, or uniform outcomes. In sentences, it often accompanies plural nouns in the partitive: for example, yhteneviä muotoja (identical shapes) or use in expressions like useita yhteneviä tuloksia (several identical results).

Grammatical notes: Yhteneviä is the partitive plural form of the adjective yhtenevä. It agrees in number (plural) and case with the noun it modifies. Other inflected forms exist for different grammatical contexts, such as yhtenäiset, yhtenevän, or yhteneviä in various cases and numbers. The adjective is commonly paired with nouns referring to properties that can be shared or mirrored among items.

See also: yhtenäinen (uniform, coherent), identtinen (identical), samankaltainen (similar).