Lyhytjyväisiin

Lyhytjyväisiin is a Finnish descriptive form used in agronomic and botanical contexts to refer to cereals with short grains. Grammatically, it is the illative plural form of the adjective lyhytjyväinen, meaning “short-grained” or “having short grains.” The term appears most often in written descriptions of cereal varieties and grain characteristics.

Formation and usage

The base adjective lyhytjyväinen is a compound of lyhyt (short) and jyväinen (grain-bearing). To modify plural nouns in the illative case, Finnish adds the suffix -isiin, producing lyhytjyväisiin. An illustrative construction is lyhytjyväisiin viljoihin, meaning “to short-grained cereals.” In sentences, the form functions as part of a larger noun phrase and can be inflected for other cases and numbers (for example, lyhytjyväinen, lyhytjyväisiin, lyhytjyväisillä).

Context and scope

The term is relatively specialized and most commonly found in agricultural, seed catalog, or botanical literature. It is not a common everyday expression, and speakers may instead use more general phrases or describe grain size directly (for example, “lyhyet jyvät” or comparisons like “pitkäjyväinen” for long-grained varieties). The form lyhytjyväisiin is primarily encountered when the illative case is needed, such as when indicating movement toward or inclusion within short-grained cereals in a descriptive passage.

Relation to similar terms

Lyhytjyväisiin is closely related to pitkäjyväisiin (long-grained cereals) as part of a grain-size classification. Related but distinct terms may appear in practical texts, depending on whether the focus is on a specific variety, a broader group, or a particular agronomic trait.

See also

pitkäjyväinen

viljely

jyvä

grain-size classifications