muotoisella

Muotoisella is the adessive singular form of the Finnish adjective muotoinen, meaning “shaped” or “in the form of.” It is used to describe a noun that has a particular form and to indicate location or manner in phrases that express how something is arranged or presented. As an inflected form of muotoinen, muotoisella belongs to the class of Finnish adjectives that decline to agree with-case and number of the noun they modify.

Morphology and usage notes: The base form muotoinen appears in dictionary entries as “shaped” or “in the form of.” The word muotoisella is the adessive form, used with nouns in the adessive case to convey meanings such as “on a shaped surface” or “in a shaped manner.” Other common inflections include muotoisen (genitive singular), muotoista (partitive singular), and muotoisia (nominative plural). The adjectives of this type are often employed in technical, descriptive, or design-oriented language to express form, structure, or appearance.

Common uses: Muotoisella is frequently found in phrases describing physical form, appearance, or method. It appears in contexts such as design descriptions, scientific observations, and architectural or artistic analyses. The phrase muotoisella tavalla is a standard way to say “in a form-based/in a shaped manner,” while muotoisella pinnalla can mean “on the shaped surface” of an object.

Examples:

- Esineen muotoisella pinnalla on kuvioita. (There are patterns on the object’s shaped surface.)

- Tutkimus esitettiin muotoisella tavalla. (The study was presented in a form-based/more structured manner.)

See also: muotoinen, muoto, muotoilu.