äskettäisiä

äskettäisiä is a Finnish adjective form meaning “recent” or “recently occurred” and is used to describe plural nouns in the partitive case. It is the plural partitive form of the adjective äskettäinen, which belongs to the -inen class of Finnish adjectives. In standard Finnish, -inen adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify, so äskettäisiä appears when the noun is in partitive plural, for example äskettäisiä tapahtumia or äskettäisiä tutkimustuloksia.

Grammatical use and formation: äskettäisiä is typically attached to a noun in the partitive plural to express that the referenced items are recent relative to a given time frame. This form is common in written Finnish, especially in news reporting, academic writing, or formal prose, where there is a need to specify the recency of events, findings, or items without signaling definiteness. The corresponding nominative plural form is äskettäiset, used when the subject of the sentence is “the recent ones.” The word’s adverbial partner is äskettäin, which means “recently,” but äskettäisiä is not used as an adverb.

Examples: Me käsittelimme äskettäisiä tapahtumia. (We discussed the recent events.) Tutkimusraportti julkaisi äskettäisiä löydöksiä. (The study report released recent findings.)

Notes: äskettäisiä is highly context-dependent and primarily appears in phrases where the noun is in partitive plural. In everyday speech, speakers often rephrase with expressions like viimeaikaiset tapahtumat or äskettäin tapahtuneet asiat.