Marginalisen

Marginalisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective marginalinen, which means marginal. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case, number, and definiteness. When the noun is in the genitive singular, the adjective typically takes the genitive singular ending -isen, producing marginalisen. The form is a grammatical inflection rather than a separate lexical item.

The primary use of marginalisen is in phrases where the noun it modifies is in genitive singular, signaling possession or a close relational attribution. It is common in technical and academic Finnish, including fields such as economics, statistics, and linguistics, where precise adjectival agreement is required. For example, marginalisen vaikutuksen tutkimus would translate roughly as “the study of the marginal effect,” while marginalisen alueen rajat would mean “the borders of the marginal area” when the noun is in genitive.

Etymology and morphology: marginalinen is formed from the base marginalinen, derived from the Latin marginalis through Finnish morphological patterns. The genitive singular is created by the standard adjectival ending -isen, yielding marginalisen. This pattern is routine for Finnish adjectives ending in -inen and is used across many similar forms.

See also: marginalinen, marginaalinen, Finnish grammar, adjective declension, genitive singular.