asiallisisen
Asiallisisen is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as an inflected variant of the adjective asiallinen, meaning proper, appropriate, or decent. It is not a separate lexical entry with its own independent meaning; rather, it is one of the inflected shapes that the adjective can take to agree with a noun in different grammatical cases and numbers. Because Finnish adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify, asiallinen has multiple surface forms, including asiallisen and other case-specific endings. Asiallisisen appears in contexts where the adjective is inflected in a way required by the surrounding noun and its case.
The core meaning remains “proper” or “appropriate.” In practice, asiallinen is used to describe behavior, language,
The word is built from the noun asia, meaning “matter” or “thing,” plus the common Finnish adjectival
- asiallinen (the base adjective)
- Finnish grammar and declension
- Etiquette and social norms in Finnish usage
Asiallisisen is best understood as a grammatical form of a common Finnish adjective rather than as
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