Terveellisen

Terveellisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective terveellinen, meaning "healthy" or "nutritious." In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and when the noun is in the genitive case, the adjective takes the genitive singular form. Thus terveellisen occurs primarily as an attributive inflection rather than as a standalone word.

Common contexts for terveellisen include phrases such as terveellisen ruokavalion mukaan ("according to a healthy diet"), terveellisen ravinnon lähteet ("sources of nutritious food"), or terveellisen elämäntavan ylläpitämisessä ("in maintaining a healthy lifestyle"). It is used mainly in health, nutrition, and lifestyle discourse.

Declension (illustrative forms for singular and plural): Nominative singular terveellinen; Genitive singular terveellisen; Partitive singular terveellistä. Nominative plural terveelliset; Genitive plural terveellisten; Partitive plural terveellisiä. These patterns reflect how adjectives ending in -inen behave in Finnish grammar, with the genitive singular form appearing as terveellisen and the plural forms following the standard -isten/-isiä endings.

Usage notes: terveellinen can describe foods, diets, habits, and products as being conducive to health. While terveellisen appears as a grammatical form, the base lexical item remains the adjective terveellinen. For nominalized or abstract references to health, other nouns such as terveys or terveellisyys may be used.

See also: terveellinen; ruokavalio; ravitsemus; terveys.