Suuruinen

Suuruinen is a Finnish adjective meaning large, grand, or magnificent, used to describe the size, scale, or importance of something. It carries a formal or literary nuance and is comparatively rare in everyday language.

The word is derived from the noun suuruus, meaning greatness or magnitude, plus the adjectival suffix -inen. This construction yields an adjective that denotes "having the quality of greatness" or "of great size."

In usage, suuruinen tends to appear in literary, ceremonial, or historical contexts. It can describe objects, events, or intangible concepts with a sense of grandeur, but speakers often replace it with more common terms such as suuri or mahtava in ordinary discourse. For example, one might encounter phrases like suuruinen rakennus (a grand building) or suuruinen suunnitelma in older or rhetorically heightened writing; however, such uses are stylistically marked today and may sound archaic.

As a Finnish adjective, suuruinen agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. It is part of a broader set of -inen adjectives that form their inflection in line with other Finnish adjectives.

Related terms include suuruus (greatness) and suurempi (greater), which cover related semantic fields of size and significance.