muodon

Muodon is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun muoto, which means form, shape, appearance, or configuration. In Finnish grammar, muodon marks possession or association, similar to the English “of the form.” The base word muoto is used across everyday and technical contexts to refer to the external or structural character of objects, beings, or concepts.

Common usages include phrases such as kiven muodon, meaning “the shape of the stone,” and muodon mukaan, meaning “according to the form/shape” or “by form.” Muodon can also appear in compounds that express changes or relations of form, such as muodonmuutos, which translates to “deformation” or “change of form” and is used in fields like geology, physics, and engineering.

Muodon functions as a grammatical form rather than a separate lexical item; the underlying noun muoto has other inflected forms for different cases, numbers, and roles in a sentence. The word is frequently encountered in discussions of design, geometry, aesthetics, and technical descriptions where shaping, structure, or style is being described.

See also: muoto, the base noun from which muodon is derived. The term muodon is primarily a grammatical inflection used to express relationships of form in Finnish rather than a standalone concept.