Tilastoiseen

Tilastoiseen is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective tilastoinen, meaning “statistical” or “relating to statistics.” It is not a separate lexical item with its own meaning, but a grammatical form used to modify a noun in specific contexts according to Finnish morphology.

Etymology and form: The word is built from tilasto- (statistics) plus the standard adjective suffix -inen, which yields tilastoinen in its base form. The -en ending in tilastoiseen represents one of the numerous inflectional endings that Finnish adjectives can take to agree with case and number in a noun phrase. As with other -inen adjectives, tilastoiseen appears in educational resources and inflection charts illustrating Finnish grammar.

Usage: In contemporary standard Finnish, speakers typically use more common expressions such as tilastollinen or tilastoon liittyvä to convey the sense of “statistical” or “statistical in nature.” Tilastoiseen tends to occur mainly in linguistic explanations of Finnish adjective inflection, in older texts, or in specialized corpora used for grammatical demonstration rather than in everyday language.

Related terms: tilastollinen (statistical), tilasto (statistics), tilastotieteellinen (statistical-scientific). The entry highlights a morphological form rather than a frequently used vocabulary item, reflecting the broader patterns of Finnish adjective inflection.

See also: Finnish language, Finnish adjectives, grammatical inflection.