lauseja

Lauseja is a Finnish noun form and refers to the plural partitive of lause, a word meaning a sentence or clause. In Finnish grammar, lause can denote a syntactic unit that conveys a proposition, and it is sometimes used to discuss clauses within larger sentences rather than whole, standalone sentences (virke). The plural partitive form lauseja is used when referring to an unspecified or partial quantity of clauses or sentences.

Morphologically, lauseja is one of several partitive plural inflections for lause. The nominative plural is lauseet, while other partitive plural forms include lauseita. The choice among these forms depends on grammatical function, context, and register. In everyday language, lauseita is a common partitive plural; lauseja occurs in standard and spoken Finnish in contexts requiring the partitive case.

In usage, lauseja appears in linguistic discussions, language education materials, and grammar resources as part of analyses of clause structure and sentence construction. It is used when talking about multiple clauses in a non-definite sense or when the action concerns an incomplete or non-countable amount of clauses. The term helps describe how Finnish constructs and analyzes sentence components, including coordination and subordination of clauses within larger utterances.

See also: Finnish grammar, clause, sentence, partitive case.