Pluralisoitu

Pluralisoitu is a Finnish linguistic term meaning “pluralized.” It describes a word or form that has been marked for plurality and is the past participle form of the verb pluralisoida (to pluralize). The term is commonly used in linguistic analysis, dictionaries, and language-technology annotations to indicate that a form is in the plural rather than in the singular.

In Finnish grammar, plurality is typically expressed through suffixes or inflection that marks the noun, pronoun, or determiner as plural. The exact plural form can vary by word class, stem changes, or irregular patterns, so the concept of pluralisoitu is useful for describing forms that have already undergone plural marking. The label is most often encountered in descriptive grammar, corpus annotation, and computational linguistics, where it helps distinguish plural forms from singular ones for parsing, search, and generation tasks.

Examples are used to illustrate the idea rather than to prescribe a single rule. A singular noun such as “koira” becomes “koirat” in the nominative plural; the plural form would be described as pluralisoitu relative to the singular base. In linguistic tagging, a token with plural functionality might be annotated to reflect its pluralisoitu status, aiding downstream processing or analysis.

The term is primarily encountered in Finnish-language linguistic contexts. Related topics include pluralization, Finnish morphology, and linguistic annotation.