Prepositiivisen

Prepositiivisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective prepositiivinen, meaning “prepositional” or “relating to a preposition.” As a standard Finnish adjective, it agrees with a noun in number and case, so prepositiivisen is used when the modified noun is in the genitive singular.

In linguistic usage, prepositiivinen is employed to describe relations expressed by prepositions or by prepositional phrases. It appears in grammars, dictionaries, and academic writing that discuss how languages encode spatial, temporal, or semantic relations with prepositions, or how prepositional phrases function within sentences. The term is more common in descriptive or typological linguistics than in everyday speech.

Morphology and examples: for adjectives of the -inen class, the forms include: nominative singular prepositiivinen, genitive singular prepositiivisen, partitive singular prepositiivista, nominative plural prepositiiviset, genitive plural prepositiivisten, and partitive plural prepositiivisia. The exact form depends on the noun’s number and case.

Usage notes: in modern Finnish grammar, the concept is primarily a descriptive label used in linguistic analysis rather than a separate grammatical category that speakers actively rely on. It helps describe how a noun phrase relates to a preposition or to a prepositional function within a clause.

See also: preposition, Finnish grammar, case, adjective declension, linguistic terminology.