kuumeinen

Kuumeinen is a Finnish adjective meaning feverish or fever-related. It describes a state or condition characterized by fever, for example a person who has a fever or a situation with feverish activity. Common usage includes phrases like potilaalla on kuume or olo on kuumeinen. The sense can be literal (fever) or metaphorical, referring to intense, urgent, or restless pace or anticipation, such as kuumeinen kiire or kuumeinen odotus.

Grammar and derivation: kuumeinen is formed from the noun kuume (fever) plus the adjectival suffix -inen, which marks a characteristic. Like other Finnish adjectives, it inflects to agree with the noun in case and number (for example kuumeinen, kuumeisen, kuumeista; plural kuumeiset). In predicative use it can describe a subject or object, while in possessive constructions it agrees with the possessor as with other adjectives.

Usage notes: In medical or clinical contexts, patients are often described in terms of having a fever rather than as being “feverish” in the everyday sense, for example “potilaalla on kuume” rather than “potilas on kuumeinen.” Kuumeinen can also carry stylistic or emotive nuance, emphasizing the severity or immediacy of a feverish condition or atmosphere in descriptive writing.

See also: kuume, fever (translation of the root concept). The term is a standard part of Finnish medical and descriptive vocabulary and appears in both everyday language and literary contexts.