Muotojensa

Muotojensa is a Finnish noun phrase that translates roughly to “its forms” or “their forms.” It is formed from muoto, meaning form or shape, together with the plural form muotoja and the third-person possessive suffix -jensa, creating a genitive construction used to refer to the set of forms belonging to a subject. The phrase can refer to physical shapes as well as abstract morphological or inflectional variants.

In usage, muotojensa is common in descriptive, scientific, and linguistic writing when discussing how something may appear or how its variants can be categorized. For example, a researcher might write that objects are classified “muotojensa mukaan,” meaning “according to their forms.” In linguistics, the phrase can be used to speak of different inflectional forms of a word or group of words.

Notes on interpretation and structure: the exact meaning of muotojensa depends on the referent in the sentence. Finnish possessive constructions attach suffixes to the noun to indicate ownership, and forms like muotojensa illustrate how those possessive markers interact with plural or collective references within noun phrases. The term is primarily a descriptive or analytical tool, signaling that a discussion focuses on shapes, appearances, or formal variants rather than on a single, fixed form.