Motoriseen

Motoriseen is a Finnish adjective form meaning related to a motor or engine. The base adjective is motorinen, which is used to describe things powered by a motor or associated with motor function. In everyday Finnish, the more common term for engine-related characteristics is moottorinen, derived from moottori (engine). Motorinen appears primarily in technical or specialized language and in compound expressions such as motorinen järjestelmä or motorinen laite, where it functions similarly to other adjectives in forming noun phrases.

The form motoriseen is the illative singular of the adjective, used when the adjective modifies a noun in the illative case (to/into a motor-related thing or state). As with other Finnish adjectives, motorinen declines according to the case and number of the noun it modifies, so motoriseen would appear in phrases where the noun is in the illative singular. The choice between motorinen and moottorinen depends on the speaker, the terminology of the field, and stylistic conventions.

Etymology and usage notes: motorinen derives from the root motor, a term adopted into Finnish from international usage related to motion and engines. The related, more common Finnish word for engine-powered concepts is moottorinen, while motorinen may be encountered in contexts demanding a particular stylistic or technical flavour.

See also: moottori, moottorinen, sähkömoottori, tekniset termit.