musiikillisen

Musiikillisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective musiikillinen, which means musical or pertaining to music. The word derives from musiikki (music) and the suffix -llinen, which forms adjectives indicating a quality or relation. In Finnish, adjectives decline like other words and thus musiikillinen has various case forms, of which musiikillisen is used when the noun it modifies is in the genitive case or in related grammatical constructions.

Musiikillisen is commonly seen in phrases expressing possession or relation to music. For example, in the phrase musiikillisen vaikutuksen, meaning “the effect of music,” or musiikillisen ilmaisun, meaning “the musical expression,” the adjective appears in its genitive singular form to agree with a head noun in genitive. The form is also used in other genitive contexts involving nouns that describe music-related qualities or phenomena.

Etymologically, musiikillisen is part of a broader class of adjectives formed with the suffix -llinen, which yields words that describe something as characterized by or related to the root concept. In practical use, the precise form of the adjective will depend on the grammatical case and number of the noun it modifies; musiikillisen specifically marks the genitive singular.

Contextually, musiikillinen and its inflections are common in discussions of musicology, criticism, and artistic analysis, where distinguishing “musical” aspects from other qualities is necessary. Related terms include musiikki (music) and other -llinen adjectives used to describe various fields or disciplines.