Nykyaikaisen

Nykyaikaisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective nykyaikainen, which means modern, contemporary, or up-to-date. The adjective itself is derived from nykyaika, meaning modern times, with the suffix -inen that forms adjectives from nouns.

In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify in case and number. Therefore nykyaikaisen appears when the noun it modifies is in the genitive singular. Other inflected forms of the adjective exist for different cases and numbers, such as nykyaikainen (nominative singular) and nykyaikaista (partitive singular).

Nykyaikaisen is commonly used to describe things that belong to or relate to the present era. For example, phrases like nykyaikaisen teknologian kehitys (the development of modern technology) and nykyaikaisen kaupungin arkkitehtuuri (the architecture of the modern city) illustrate its typical usage in contexts such as technology, design, and urban life. The genitive form is often used to attribute possession or association to a noun.

The predicate form of the adjective is nykyaikainen, used when describing a subject directly, as in Tämä laite on nykyaikainen (This device is modern). Although nykyaikaisen primarily functions as a grammatical inflection, it is widely encountered in Finnish prose and media as part of standard expressions concerning modernity and up-to-dateness.

See also: nykyaikainen, nykyaikaisuus, nykyaikaisuus. The term is a common, neutral descriptor in contemporary Finnish rather than a proper noun.