konjugaatti

Konjugaatti is a linguistic term used to describe the inflected forms of a verb and the system by which these forms are produced. In many languages, a verb’s konjugaatti expresses information such as person (first, second, third), number (singular, plural), tense, aspect, mood, voice, and sometimes modality or evidentiality. The process of forming these variants is called konjugointi. The complete set of forms for a verb is known as its paradigm or conjugation; verbs may belong to regular or irregular classes.

Languages differ in how they realize konjugaatti. Some rely primarily on endings attached to a stem, others use auxiliary verbs, and some combine both. The distinction between finite forms (which show agreement with the subject and reference time) and non-finite forms (infinitives, participles) is common.

Examples: English has a relatively small yet informative konjugaatti set for "to be": am, is, are; was, were; be, being, been. Latin presents a full paradigm: amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant. Finnish and many other languages encode multiple grammatical categories directly in the verb through extensive inflection, making konjugaatti particularly rich.

For linguistic study, mapping a verb’s konjugaatti helps describe syntax, morphology, and semantics, and aids language learning and comparative analysis. See also conjugation, inflection, paradigm.