Sarakemuotoiseen

Sarakemuotoiseen is a Finnish adjective meaning “in columnar form” or “in the form of a column.” It is formed from the noun sarake (column) and muoto (form) with the adjectival suffix -oinen, and its inflected form sarakemuotoiseen represents the illative case, indicating movement or transformation into column form. The base form of the adjective is sarakemuotoinen.

In technical contexts, sarakemuotoisen describes data, layouts, or storage that are arranged or stored by columns rather than by rows. It is commonly used in discussions of data representation, databases, and document formatting to contrast columnar (sarakemuotoinen) with row-based (rivi- tai rivimuotoinen) arrangements. Related terms include sarakepohjainen (column-oriented) and other columnar concepts found in data processing and analytics.

Examples of use include phrases such as esitetään sarakemuotoiseen taulukkoon (“presented in a columnar table”) or siirtyminen sarakemuotoiseen tallennukseen (“transition to columnar storage”). While the word is relatively specialized, it appears in Finnish technical literature on databases, data warehousing, and data formatting, where clear distinctions between columnar and row-oriented representations are important.