Brasilialaisen

Brasilialaisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective brasilialainen, meaning Brazilian. In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they describe, and brasilialaisen is used whenever the noun it modifies is in the genitive case. The form signals relation to Brazil or Brazilians and appears in phrases that describe origin, culture, language, or other Brazil-related attributes. For example, brasilialaisen kulttuurin monimuotoisuus means “the diversity of Brazilian culture,” and brasilialaisen kaupungin arkkitehtuuri means “the architecture of a Brazilian city.”

Morphology and related forms. The base form is brasilialainen (nominative singular). Other inflected forms include: nominative plural brasilialaiset, genitive plural brasilialaisien, partitive forms such as brasilialaisia. The genitive singular brasilialaisen is used to mark possession or a modifier in phrases with a genitive noun.

Usage and scope. Brasilialainen primarily describes things connected with Brazil, including people, culture, language, products, and geography. It can denote nationality or origin in a broad sense and is widely used in neutral, descriptive Finnish. In plural reference, brasilialaiset refers to Brazilians; genitive plural brasilialaisien is used in phrases like “brasilialaisien ihmisten…” to mean “of Brazilian people.”

Origins. The term is formed in Finnish from the country-root Brasil- plus the common demonym suffix -lainen, a productive pattern for deriving adjectives and demonyms (for example suomalainen, ruotsalainen). This pattern yields a consistent way to express Brazilian-related attributes in Finnish.

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