Merkkikokonaisuudeksi
Merkkikokonaisuudeksi is a grammatical term used in Finnish linguistics to describe the transformation of a lexical item or morpheme into its complete morphological form. The word is derived from the Finnish components merki (mark, sign), kokonaisuus (whole, totality) and the suffix -eksi, which indicates an action or process. In practice, the term refers to the inflectional or derivational construction that yields a fully realized word form that carries all necessary grammatical markers for its syntactic roles.
In morphosyntactic analysis, Finnish words are often decomposed into smaller units, such as stems, inflectional suffixes,
This notion is especially useful for educational contexts that focus on teaching Finnish affixation and word