mallaamalla
Mallaamalla is a Finnish term formed as a gerund from the verb mallata, meaning to model or prototype. In Finnish grammar, mallaamalla functions as an adverbial participle that expresses the method or means by which an action is carried out, roughly translating to “by modeling.”
In practice, mallaamalla is used in technical and professional discourse to describe a workflow that relies
The term is common in fields such as product design, software engineering, system analysis, urban planning,
Related Finnish terms include mallintaminen (modeling, as a process) and simulointi (simulation). Mallaamalla emphasizes the active
Origin and usage notes: the root is mall- from malli meaning “model,” and the suffix -ta forms