Lausemuotoisia

Lausemuotoisia is the plural form of the Finnish adjective lausemuotoinen, meaning in the form of a sentence or sentence-like. In linguistic and educational contexts, the term is used to describe expressions or utterances that are presented or analyzed as complete sentences or as units that function like sentences, rather than as single words or short phrases. The concept helps differentiate between forms at different grammatical levels when describing data, examples, or discourse.

In practice, lausemuotoisia appears mainly in grammar descriptions, corpus annotation, and language-learning materials. It is used to label items that are intended to be read or interpreted as sentences, including direct quotes, reported speech, or embedded clauses that retain sentence-like structure. The label can help learners and analysts distinguish these items from word forms (sanamuotoisia) or shorter phrase-form expressions.

The term is not a formal grammatical category in Finnish syntax on its own, but a descriptive label employed for clarity. It may accompany nouns such as ilmaukset (expressions), lausekokonaisuudet (sentence complexes), or tekstikappaleet (text passages) to indicate their sentence-like status within a dataset, lesson, or analysis.

Example usage: a language-learning resource might present a list of lausemuotoisia esimerkkejä, such as complete declarative sentences, to illustrate punctuation and sentence structure. In corpus work, items tagged as lausemuotoisia help researchers analyze sentence-level phenomena separately from word- or phrase-level data.

See also: Finnish grammar, sentence, clause, phrase, direct speech, reported speech.