adessiivimuotoisan

Adessiivimuotoisan is a Finnish linguistic term that refers to one inflected form of the compound adjective adessiivimuotoinen, which means “in the adessive form” or “of adessive form.” The phrase is used in grammars and descriptive works to discuss how adjectives can describe nouns in connection with the adessive case or the idea of a form belonging to that case.

In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. The base form adessiivimuotois- belongs to the set of -inen-type adjectives. Common inflected forms include adessiivimuotoisen (genitive singular), adessiivimuotoista (partitive singular), adessiivimuotoiset (nominative plural), adessiivimuotoisten (genitive plural), and adessiivimuotoisia (partitive plural). The form adessiivimuotoisan is one of these inflected variants, appearing in contexts where the adjective takes a particular case-ending within a noun phrase. It is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions, grammars, and educational materials rather than in everyday speech.

Usage of the term is mainly explanatory: it helps describe how a noun phrase can be framed as “in the adessive form.” For example, in a grammar example you might encounter phrases like “adessiivimuotoisan sanan muoto,” illustrating how the adjective aligns with the noun in a given case. Overall, adessiivimuotoisan functions as a specific inflected form of an adjective used to talk about the adessive form rather than a standalone lexical item. See also adessiivi and muoto.