empiriniai

Empiriniai is a Lithuanian adjective form meaning empirical. It describes knowledge, data, methods, or conclusions that are based on observation, experience, or experiment rather than on theory alone. The term is used in scientific, academic, and analytical contexts to distinguish empirically grounded material from purely theoretical or speculative content. Common expressions include empiriniai duomenys (empirical data), empiriniai įrodymai (empirical evidence), and empirinė analizė (empirical analysis).

Grammatically, empiriniai is the masculine plural nominative form. The feminine plural form is empirinės, and other forms follow standard Lithuanian grammar. In actual usage, the adjective alters nouns to reflect gender and number, as in empiriniai duomenys or empirinės žinios (empirical knowledge).

Origin and relation to related terms: the concept is tied to empirizmas (empiricism) in Lithuanian. The adjective shares its root with the related nouns empirija and empirizmas, and appears in varied academic phrases to denote conclusions and data derived from observation and experimentation rather than from deduction alone.

See also: empirizm (empiricism), empirinis, empirical in English-language contexts. This term is primarily a grammatical form used to describe empirical phenomena, rather than a standalone concept, and is most commonly encountered in Lithuanian scientific and scholarly writing.