Taivutettavuus
Taivutettavuus, or inflectability, is a linguistic property describing the extent to which a word can take inflectional endings to express grammatical information such as case, number, mood, tense, and voice. In Finnish linguistics, taivuttelu refers to how words change form to reflect their syntactic role in a sentence. The concept is central in studying morphology and the organization of a language’s inflectional system.
In Finnish, taivuttavuus is high for many word classes. Nouns and adjectives inflect for number and a
Taivuttettavuuteen vaikuttavat sekä word class (nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, numerals) että phonological and orthographic factors. Borrowed
Understanding taivutettavuus is important for language learning, dictionary compilation, and natural language processing, where inflectional paradigms