kypsään

Kypsän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective kypsä, meaning ripe or mature. It is used when kypsä modifies a noun that is in the genitive case. A common example is the phrase kypsän omenan maku, meaning “the taste of the ripe apple.”

In Finnish, adjectives decline for case and number, and kypsän is the form that precedes a genitive noun. The base form kypsä appears in nominative contexts (for example, kypsä omena, “a ripe apple”). Other cases have their own forms, such as kypsää in the partitive (kypsää omenaa, “ripe apples”).

Etymology and usage: Kypsä denotes ripeness or maturity and is widely used in everyday language to describe readiness of food, fruit, or biological stages. Kypsän is therefore most often encountered in descriptive noun phrases that require a genitive construction, rather than as an independent lexical item.

Notes: As with all Finnish adjectives, kypsän must agree with the noun it modifies in number and case. For instance, the correct phrase for “the taste of the ripe apple” is kypsän omenan maku; incorrect forms like kypsän omena maku would violate genitive agreement.