Samanlaatuista

Samanlaatuista is a Finnish adjective form meaning “of the same kind” or “of a similar type.” It is used to indicate that two or more things share the same characteristics or belong to the same category. The term is built from sama, meaning “the same,” and laatu, meaning “quality” or “kind,” with the common adjective suffix -inen. The form samanlaatuista is the partitive singular, used when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case.

Example: Näytteet ovat samanlaatuista materiaalia. In this usage, the noun materiaalia is in the partitive, signaling an indefinite quantity of material of the same kind. Finnish adjectives inflect to agree with the noun in number and case, so other grammatical forms of samanlaatuinen appear as the noun governs different endings.

Usage and context: The term is common in technical, scientific, and descriptive writing where items, materials, samples, or categories are compared by their type or quality. It conveys a precise sense of uniformity across the entities described.

Related terms: Samanlainen and samankaltainen are closely related Finnish adjectives conveying similarity or sameness, used in different syntactic contexts and with different inflection patterns.