kaksimutkaisen

Kaksimutkainen is a Finnish adjective meaning “having two bends” or “two-bent.” It is a compound formed from the numerals kaksi (two) and mutka (bend) with the typical adjectival suffix -ainen, indicating a characteristic. The word is used to describe objects, shapes, routes, or spaces that feature two distinct bends or turns.

In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify. The base form is kaksimutkainen; in the genitive singular you obtain kaksimutkaisen, as in kaksimutkaisen tien mutkat, or kaksimutkaisen muodon. Other common forms include kaksimutkainen talo (nominative singular), kaksimutkaiset (nominative plural), and kaksimutkaisia (partitive plural). The term is primarily used in descriptive or technical contexts rather than general everyday speech.

Usage tends to appear in geography, road or route descriptions, architectural or design discussions, and geometric or mathematical descriptions. For example, a road described as a kaksimutkainen tie indicates it has two bends. A two-bend shape in a diagram might be referred to as a kaksimutkainen muoto. Because it is a specific descriptive term rather than a general-purpose word, kaksimutkainen is more common in written Finnish than in casual conversation.

See also: mutka (bend), mutkainen (curved, winding), geometrical descriptors in Finnish. The concept remains one of several Finnish adjectives that encode quantitative features (such as number of bends) into a single descriptive form.