Muotoisen

Muotoisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective muotoinen, meaning “shaped” or “in the form of.” In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify for case and number, and muotoisen appears when the noun is in the genitive singular. For example, muotoisen talon means “of a shaped house” or “the shaped house’s.”

Usage and examples:

- muotoinen talo = a shaped house (nominative singular)

- muotoisen talon = of a shaped house / the shaped house’s (genitive singular)

- muotoisia taloja = shaped houses (partitive plural)

- muotoisesta talosta = from a shaped house (elative singular)

Common contexts for muotoisen include architecture, design, and descriptive language where the shape or form of an object is specified. The form muotoisen is not a standalone noun; it is an inflected adjective form used to modify a noun in genitive singular.

Etymology and relation:

Muotoisen derives from muotoinen, formed from muoto (shape) plus the adjective suffix -inen. The genitive singular ending -n attaches to muotoisen, yielding the possessive or part-whole sense in phrases such as “muotoisen talon julkisivu” (the façade of a shaped house).

See also:

Finnish grammar and adjective declension, muotoinen, muotoilu (design), and related morphological forms.

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