exclamatiivisiin

Exclamatiivisiin is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective exclamatiivinen, meaning “exclamative.” It is the illative plural form used to modify a plural noun in the illative case, for example in phrases like exclamatiivisiin lauseisiin, meaning “into exclamative sentences.” This form appears mainly in linguistic descriptions and grammar discussions rather than in everyday language.

Morphology and usage: exclamatiivinen declines like other Finnish adjectives. The base is exclamatiivinen, and to describe multiple nouns in the illative case you use exclamatiivisiin. Other related forms include exclamatiiviset lauseet (nominative plural) and exclamatiivisia lauseita (partitive plural). Understanding exclamatiivisiin helps in analyzing how Finnish adjectives agree with nouns across cases, especially in scholarly texts that categorize sentence types such as exclamatives.

Context: In linguistic work about Finnish exclamatives, exclamatiivisiin often appears when illustrating how adjectives modify nouns in the illative. It signals that the noun it describes is part of a class of expressions used to convey strong emotion or emphasis. The concept of exclamatives itself refers to the syntactic or lexical constructions that express surprise, admiration, or intensity, rather than a separate mood of the verb.

See also: exclamative mood, Finnish grammar, inflection of adjectives, illative case.