Pienimmän

Pienimmän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish superlative adjective pienin, meaning “the smallest.” In Finnish, adjectives agree with the head noun in case and number, so pienimmän is used when the governing noun is in the genitive or when the entire noun phrase is in the genitive.

Used in noun phrases, pienimmän describes a specific smallest entity within a larger set. For example: Pienimmän talon ovi on punainen (The door of the smallest house is red) and Pienimmän lapsen nimi on Aino (The smallest child’s name is Aino). The form is not used alone; it functions as a modifier within a genitive construction.

Etymology and pattern: pienimmän is formed from the base adjective pienin (the smallest) plus the genitive singular ending -n. This is part of Finnish adjective inflection, where the superlative form changes to accommodate different cases. Other related forms of pienin include the nominative pienin (the smallest) and various other case forms like pienintä (partitive), depending on the syntactic role of the noun.

In practice, pienimmän is common in descriptive language, especially when specifying size within a comparative or relative context. It is one of several inflected forms of pienin used to express size-related relations in Finnish grammar. See also Finnish grammar on degree of comparison and noun-adjective agreement for broader context.