dekonjugoitua

Dekonjugoitua is a Finnish linguistic term meaning “deconjugated” or “not conjugated.” It describes a verb form that has not been inflected for person or number and, in many contexts, not for tense or mood. In practice, dekonjugoitua forms include the dictionary form (lemma) or other non-finite forms such as the infinitive, which serve as the base from which finite forms are derived.

The concept is useful for describing the relationship between a verb’s base form and its inflected forms. The dekonjugoitua form provides a stable reference point that can be combined with affixes to produce finite conjugations. This distinction helps lexicography, language teaching, and computational linguistics by clarifying which forms carry grammatical information and which do not.

In usage, dekonjugoitua forms appear as lemmas or stems in morphological analysis. They are essential when listing a verb in a dictionary, parsing a text, or building language-processing tools, because many algorithms operate by attaching endings to a non-finite base form.

The term is most commonly found in Finnish-language linguistic literature. In other languages, similar notions are described as lemma, base form, or infinitive. Dekonjugoitua thus denotes the non-inflected or non-conjugated reference form of a verb used as the starting point for conjugation.