kirjailijan

Kirjailijan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun kirjailija, which means author or writer. It is used to show possession or association with a writer, for example in phrases like kirjailijan teokset (the author’s works) or kirjailijan elämä (the writer’s life).

In Finnish, the genitive is formed by adding the ending -n to the base noun, so kirjailija becomes kirjailijan. The form appears in noun phrases where the writer is connected to something else, either as the owner of the thing or as the person related to it. It is not typically used as a standalone noun outside of such possessive constructions.

Related terms include kirjailija (the author) and kirjoittaja (a writer, often used more broadly). The genitive form kirjailijan can be pluralized as kirjailijoiden in the corresponding plural possessive, for example kirjailijoiden teokset (the authors’ works). In literary and bibliographic contexts, kirjailijan and its inflected forms frequently appear in discussions of a writer’s output, biography, or reception.

Overall, kirjailijan functions as a standard grammatical form to indicate that something pertains to or belongs to a specific author, within the broader Finnish system of noun inflection and possessive construction.