laillisen

Laillisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective laillinen, which means lawful, legal, or legitimate. The term broadly indicates that something is in accordance with law or possesses a rightful, statutory basis. In Finnish, laillinen can describe institutions, actions, or rights, and laillisen links to the noun in genitive form to express “of a legal/legitimate ...” relationship, for example laillisen valtion (of a lawful state) or laillisen oikeuden (the legal right).

Grammar and inflection details: Laillinen is an adjective that agrees with its noun in number and case. Nominative singular is laillinen, genitive singular is laillisen, and partitive singular is laillista. In plural, the forms change accordingly (e.g., lailliset in nominative plural; laillisten in genitive plural). The genitive singular laillisen is the form most commonly encountered when describing ownership or attribution in formal or legal contexts.

Usage and nuance: Laillinen emphasizes compliance with statute or formal legality and is often used in legal, governmental, or administrative language. It can also convey legitimacy in a formal sense, as opposed to moral or ethical judgments, which might use different phrasing. The opposite is laiton (illegal), used to denote violations of law, with related terms like laillistaa (to legalize) appearing in broader legal discourse.

See also: laki (law), oikeus (right, justice, or court), laiton (illegal), laillisuus (legality). The term laillinen and its inflected forms are standard in Finnish legal writing, official documents, and formal discourse.