maskuliinisia

Maskuliinisia is a Finnish adjective form meaning masculine, used to describe masculine nouns in plural form. In Finnish, adjectives do not mark gender in the sense found in many other languages; they decline for number and case. The form maskuliinisia specifically appears when the noun it modifies is plural and in a partitive or similar case, rather than in the nominative plural.

Morphology and usage: The base adjective is maskuliininen (masculine). Its plural nominative form is maskuliiniset, while the plural partitive form is maskuliinisia. This form is commonly seen with plural nouns in partitive constructions or in predicative positions where the noun phrase is treated as indefinite or non-final. For example: maskuliinisia sanoja (masculine words), Näin sanat ovat maskuliinisia (these words are masculine).

Context and interpretation: Finnish has no inherent grammatical gender on nouns, so maskuliinisia signals masculine gender only in contexts where gender is relevant, such as linguistic descriptions, discussions about borrowed or gendered terms, or translations from languages with grammatical gender. In ordinary Finnish discourse, gender-neutral terms are common, and adjectives align with number and case rather than gender.

Examples in usage:

- Näytelmässä käytetyt termit ovat maskuliinisia sanoja.

- Näiden sanojen merkitys voi vaihdella, mutta ne ovat maskuliinisia sanoja.

See also: maskuliininen, kielioppi, sukupuolittuneet termit.