Taivutuksina

Taivutuksina is a Finnish term meaning “as inflections” or “in inflectional forms.” In linguistics, taivutus (inflection) refers to the modification of a word to express grammatical information such as case, number, possessive marking, tense, mood, person, or negation. Taivutuksina denotes the set or appearance of these inflected forms, often presented as a paradigm showing each form for a given word.

In Finnish, nouns and adjectives decline through cases and numbers, and verbs conjugate for tense, mood, voice, person, and number. For example, the noun kissa has taivutuksina forms like kissa (nominative singular), kissan (genitive singular), kissaa (partitive singular), kissassa (inessive), kissasta (elative). The verb puhua has taivutuksina forms such as puhun (1st person singular present), puhuu (3rd person singular present), puhui (past), puhu (imperative). The inflectional system underpins sentence structure, agreement, and meaning in Finnish and many other languages.

Taivutuksina are a common focus in dictionaries, grammar descriptions, and language-learning materials. They are also central to computational tasks such as morphological parsing and part-of-speech tagging, where each possible form is linked to its lemma and grammatical features. While many languages rely on word order for meaning, Finnish depends heavily on taivutus to convey grammatical relations.