Kohdemuodon

Kohdemuodon is a term used in Finnish linguistics and language technology to denote the target inflected form that a word is expected to take in a given context. The word is formed from kohde, meaning target, and muoto, meaning form; the genitive kohdemuodon is used when discussing the form itself, for example in annotation guidelines or morphological paradigms.

In practice, kohdemuodon appears in language teaching, computational morphology, and corpus annotation. In teaching materials, learners may be asked to supply the kohdemuoto of a lemma in a specific case and number. In natural language processing and data annotation, a field labeled kohdemuoto records the exact inflected form that a system should generate for a given lemma and context, such as the kohdemuoto of talo in singular genitive being talon, or talojen in plural genitive. The exact forms depend on the language’s morphology, and the term functions primarily as a descriptive label rather than a separate grammatical category.

Related terms include perusmuoto (base form) and taivutusmuoto (inflected form), with taivutusparadigma referring to a full inflection paradigm. The use of kohdemuodon varies by author and resource; some sources prefer kohdemuoto to Kohdemuodon. Overall, kohdemuodon serves as a practical label for the intended inflected form in exercises, datasets, and computational tasks.