Pukua

Pukua is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun puku, which means a suit or dress. In Finnish, puku can refer to formal clothing such as a man's suit or a woman's dress, as well as to a complete set of clothes worn for a specific purpose. The word pukua specifically denotes an indefinite or non-completed quantity of such clothing, reflecting the role of the partitive case in Finnish grammar.

In usage, the partitive form pukua appears in constructions where the object is not regarded as a definite, fully specified item, or in contexts involving ongoing states, negation, or partial amounts. The form is one of several inflected forms that Finnish assigns to nouns to indicate case, number, and definiteness. It is most often contrasted with the genitive form puvun (for a definite, fully specified suit or dress) and with other cases that mark location, direction, or relationship.

Morphology and related forms: the base word is puku; the partitive singular ends with -a, yielding pukua. Other inflected forms include the genitive puvun, the inessive puvussa, the elative puvusta, and the plural forms such as pukut (nominative plural) and pukuja (partitive plural). Like many Finnish nouns, puku shows a range of inflections to fit different grammatical contexts rather than changing meaning through the inflection alone.

See also: puku, Finnish grammar, Finnish noun inflection.