Taivutussarjansa

Taivutussarjansa is the inflectional paradigm of a word in Finnish grammar. In linguistic description, taivutussarja describes how a word changes form to express grammatical categories such as case and number for nouns and adjectives, or person, number, tense, and mood for verbs. The pattern is determined by the word’s stem and regular suffixes, and it is shaped by phenomena such as vowel harmony and consonant gradation. Irregular words may have idiosyncratic taivutussarjat that do not fully conform to standard patterns.

For a noun such as koira, taivutussarjansa includes forms like koira (nominative singular), koiran (genitive singular), koiraa (partitive singular), koirassa (inessive singular), and koirasta (elative singular). In the plural, forms include koirat (nominative plural), koirien (genitive plural), koiria (partitive plural), and koirissa (inessive plural). These forms illustrate how a single noun follows a recognizable inflectional pattern across cases and numbers.

For a verb such as katsoa, taivutussarjansa covers person- and number-specific present forms (katson, katsot, katsoo, katsomme, katsotte, katsovat) and past forms (katsoin, katsoit, katsoi, katsoimme, katsoitte, katsoivat), among others. Finnish verbs also exhibit mood and tense variations, including conditional and potential forms, which are part of the same overarching taivutussarja.

In dictionaries and language-learning resources, taivutussarja is used to summarize the full set of inflected forms for a word, helping users anticipate how the word behaves in different grammatical contexts.