Bakteerisen

Bakteerisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective bakteerinen, meaning “bacterial.” In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify, so bakteerinen becomes bakteerisen when used with a noun in the genitive singular. This form appears in phrases such as bakteerisen taudin, meaning “of the bacterial disease,” or in compound expressions where the noun in genitive governs the meaning.

The word is common in medical and scientific Finnish. It is used to describe things related to bacteria in contexts such as infections, diseases, and research findings. Examples include bakteerisen infektion hoito (“treatment of a bacterial infection”) and bakteerisen taudin puhkeaminen (“the onset of a bacterial disease”). The form helps convey possession, association, or specificity within a sentence without adopting a separate noun form.

Etymology and morphology: bakteeri is the Finnish noun for bacterium, and the suffix -nen creates the adjective bakteerinen, meaning “bacterial.” The genitive singular form bakteerisen is produced through standard Finnish adjective inflection, not through a distinct lexical item.

See also: bakteeri. Notes: bakteerisen is not a standalone concept; it is an inflected form of the adjective bakteerinen used to match grammatical case in Finnish.