Loppuisia

Loppuisia is a Finnish morphological form describing adjectives in their plural partitive case. It is the plural partitive form of an adjective derived from the stem loppu-, related to the concept of an ending or final part. In usage, loppuisia appears when the adjective modifies a plural noun in partitive, indicating an indefinite quantity of items with a final or ending character.

In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify for number and case. The plural partitive ending, which often takes an -sia/-isiä or similar shape depending on vowel harmony, marks an indefinite amount or extent in the object of the sentence. Therefore, loppuisia is not a separate word with its own meaning; it is an inflected form used to describe multiple things that are viewed in a partial or ongoing sense of being final or terminal. An example construction would be loppuisia kysymyksiä, translated as “final questions” in a partitive sense, or more loosely as “questions that are of a final/ending nature” when the context requires a non-specific quantity.

The term is primarily of interest in linguistic description and Finnish grammar, rather than as a common everyday term. It illustrates how Finnish adjectives decline to reflect number and case, and how the partitive plural form can shape the meaning of a noun phrase. See also Finnish grammar, adjectives in Finnish, and partitive case in Finnish.

Related topics: Finnish language, grammatical inflection, partitive case, Finnish adjectives.