konjugoitunut

Konjugoitunut is a Finnish adjective formed from the verb konjugoida, meaning "to conjugate." It describes a word that has undergone conjugation and thus expresses grammatical categories such as person, number, tense, and mood. In linguistic description, a verb form that shows subject agreement and a specific time frame is referred to as a konjugoitunut muoto, i.e., a conjugated form.

In practice, the term is used mainly in grammar and language-learning contexts to distinguish between a base lemma and its inflected, or konjugoitunut, forms. The past participle konjugoitunut can function as an attributive or predicative adjective, for example in phrases like konjugoitunut verbi (a conjugated verb) or konjugoituneet muodot (the conjugated forms). It is a helpful descriptor when analyzing verb morphology across languages or when teaching Finnish verb conjugation.

Relation to other terms: konjugoitunut is linked to konjugoida (to conjugate) and to the nouns konjugaatio or konjugointi (conjugation). It sits alongside taivutus (inflection) as part of the broader topic of verb morphology in Finnish. While Finnish often uses taivutus to describe inflection in a general sense, konjugoida and its participle provide a more specific label for forms that explicitly show person or tense.

See also: Verbit, Morfologia, Konjugointi, Taivutus, Suomen kielioppi. Examples of konjugoituneet muodot include those of the verb mennä, such as mien (I go) or meni (he went), illustrating how a base verb appears in its conjugated forms.