luokitteli

Luokitteli is a Finnish verb form meaning "classified" and is the third-person singular past tense (indictive) form of the verb luokitella, which means to classify or categorize. Luokitella is a transitive verb used to place objects into categories or groups, and luokitteli marks that this classification happened in the past by a third-person subject.

In usage, luokitteli appears in descriptive, historical, or reporting contexts where past classifications are described. It is common in academic writing, data analyses described retrospectively, and narrative passages that recount how items were sorted into categories. An example sentence is: Hän luokitteli kohteet kahteen ryhmään, meaning "He classified the objects into two groups."

Related forms include the infinitive luokitella, the present tense luokittelee (he/she classifies), and the participles luokitellut (classified) and luokiteltava (to be classified). Noun forms related to the concept are luokitus (classification) and luokittelu (the act of classifying).

Etymology: luokitella is built from luokka (class, category) with derivational morphemes typical of Finnish denominal verbs, yielding a verb that conveys the act of sorting or placing items into classes. The past tense luokitteli thus reflects a completed past action of classification within Finnish grammar.