Passiivina

Passiivina is the essive form of the Finnish noun passiivi, meaning “as passive” or “in the passive form.” It is used in Finnish grammar and linguistic descriptions to indicate that something is being discussed or analyzed as belonging to the passive voice. The essive case in Finnish commonly expresses a temporary state or role, and passiivina marks a specific labeling of a verb form as passive within a description or table of forms.

In practical terms, passiivina appears mainly in educational materials, grammars, and linguistic analyses rather than in everyday speech. It helps linguists distinguish between active and passive constructions when describing sentences, parsing trees, or cataloging verb forms. The form is created by adding the essive suffix -na (or -nä) to the noun passiivi, yielding passiivina as the label for the passive-voice designation.

Relation to other terms is straightforward: passiivi refers to the passive voice itself, while aktiivinen (active) refers to the active voice. The essive case, including passiivina, is one tool for describing grammatical categories rather than a separate syntactic construction used in daily language.

See also: passiivi, aktiivivoi, essiivi.

Notes: The use of passiivina is largely confined to linguistic discussion and instructional contexts. It may appear in grammars, language-learning resources, and computational linguistics annotations where precise labeling of voice is required.