Esimerkkimuotoja
Esimerkkimuotoja is a Finnish linguistic term that translates roughly as "example forms." It refers to a small set or selection of inflected or derived forms used to illustrate how a headword can appear in different morphosyntactic environments. The concept is common in grammars, dictionaries, and language-teaching materials, where esimerkkimuotoja help users understand how a word changes with case, number, tense, mood, voice, person, degree, or other grammatical categories.
In practice, esimerkkimuotoja can be full paradigms showing many forms, or compact selections that highlight the
In edited linguistic resources and corpora, esimerkkimuotoja serve as evidence for morphosyntactic analyses: the forms are
Historically, grammars have used standardized esimerkkimuotoja to illustrate rules, and today digital lexicons and morphological analyzers
Related terms include esimerkki (example), muoto (form), paradigma (paradigm), and taivutus (inflection).