lyhyemmän

Lyhyemmän is a Finnish word that functions as the genitive singular form of the comparative adjective lyhyempi, which means “shorter.” The base adjective lyhyt means “short,” and the comparative lyhyempi denotes a lesser duration or length relative to another item. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case and number; when the noun is in the genitive, the adjective takes the genitive singular form lyhyemmän.

The form lyhyemmän is commonly seen in phrases such as sen lyhyemmän version, meaning “that shorter version.” In this construction, lyhyemmän modifies the noun version, and the whole noun phrase is in the genitive case, often following a determiner such as sen or hänen.

Morphology and usage notes: lyhyempi is formed from lyhyt with the comparative suffix -empi. The genitive singular of lyhyempi is lyhyemmän, which reflects Finnish inflection patterns for adjectives in the genitive. Beyond lyhyemmän, the adjective lyhyempi has other inflected forms (e.g., nominative lyhyempi, partitive lyhyempää, and plural forms), following standard Finnish adjective declension.

In summary, lyhyemmän is a grammatically specific form used to express “of the shorter” when describing a noun in the genitive, most commonly appearing in phrases like “sen lyhyemmän version.”