Taivutettuna

Taivutettuna is a Finnish linguistic term that describes a word form that has been inflected or conjugated. In Finnish grammar, taivutus (inflection) changes a word’s form to express grammatical categories such as case, number, tense, person, or mood. Taivuttuna denotes the state of being in an inflected form, and is often used as a descriptor meaning “in an inflected form” or “conjugated.”

Etymology and morphology: The term is derived from the verb taivuttaa, meaning to inflect or bend, combined with the past passive participle suffix and the adverbial -na/-nä ending, yielding taivutettuna. The sense is that a word has undergone taivutus and exists in a form produced by inflection.

Usage: Taivutettuna is common in grammar descriptions, dictionaries, and language-learning materials to distinguish a word’s inflected forms from its base or dictionary form (perusmuoto). For example, the noun kissa has taivutettuja muotoja such as kissan (genitive), kissaan (illative), and kissaa (partitive). The verb kirjoittaa has taivutetut muotoja such as kirjoitan, kirjoitat, and kirjoitti.

See also: The concept is part of the broader field of Finnish morphology and is closely related to terms like taivutus, taivutusluokitus (declension/conjugation classes), and perusmuoto (dictionary form). In computational linguistics and language education, taivutettuna helps describe how a word appears in a particular grammatical form.