Kielioppina

Kielioppina is the translative form of the Finnish noun kielioppi, meaning grammar. It is used to express that something is being regarded, used, or treated as grammar, rather than as a content subject, rule, or source of information in another capacity.

In practice, kielioppina appears in contexts where a text, rule, or resource is used for linguistic instruction or analysis. For example, you might say: Käytän tätä kirjaa kielioppina. (I use this book as grammar.) or Tämä ohje toimii kielioppina oppilaille. (This guide works as grammar for students.) The form signals a functional role, similar to “as grammar” in English, and is common in educational materials, teaching contexts, and linguistic descriptions.

Morphology and usage notes: kielioppina is the translative case of kielioppi, attached to indicate a shift in function or role. It generally appears with singular referents and tends to occur in explicit explanations of how a source or rule is intended to be used. It is less common in everyday casual speech and more frequent in instructional discourse, grammars, and language-learning texts.

Relation to related terms: kielioppi refers to the overall concept of grammar, while kielioppina specifies use or treatment of something as grammar. The construction can be extended with further context, for example indicating the domain in which something is used as grammar (kielioppiin - into grammar, or kielioppina opetuksessa - as grammar in teaching).

See also: kielioppi, Finnish grammar, translative case.