Nominalisoinnilla

Nominalisoinnilla is a linguistic term used in Finnish to describe nominalization, the process of turning verbs and other parts of speech into nouns or noun phrases. In Finnish, nominalisointi is productive and widely used to shape meaning, syntax, and emphasis. The most common realization is suffixation with -minen to form action or event nouns from verbs: kirjoittaa -> kirjoittaminen (the act of writing); syödä -> syöminen (the act of eating). Another pattern forms agent nouns from verbs with -ja/-jä: opettaa -> opettaja (teacher). Adjectives can be nominalized using suffixes such as -isuus or -uus, producing abstract nouns: kaunis -> kauneus (beauty); suuri -> suuruus (greatness). Nominalisointi also enables condensation of clauses into noun phrases, allowing phrases like "the act of writing" or "whether he comes" to function as subjects or objects within larger sentences.

In usage, nominalisoinnilla contributes to clarity and abstraction, enabling more compact or formal expression. It also affects syntactic structure, since the resulting nouns behave like ordinary nouns and take the same modifiers, determiners, or possessives. In education and legal texts, nominalization helps assemble long noun phrases that refer to concepts or processes. The phenomenon is a central feature of Finnish morphology and is studied in grammar, language teaching, and corpus linguistics to analyze how noun phrases develop and constrain meaning in discourse.