nationaalisen
Nationaalisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective nationaalinen, a loanword borrowed to mean “national” or “pertaining to a nation.” In standard Finnish, the more common equivalent is kansallinen. Nationaalinen reflects influence from Dutch nationaal and related languages, and it appears primarily in contexts where Finnish text mirrors a source language’s terminology or in bilingual materials.
As a Finnish inflected adjective, nationaalinen follows the normal pattern for adding case endings to -inen
Usage and prevalence are modest in contemporary Finnish. Writers typically substitute kansallinen or kansallisen in most
- Kansallinen (the standard Finnish equivalent)
- Nationaalinen as a loanword in Finnish vocabulary
- Language contact and loanword influence in Finnish
In summary, nationaalisen is a grammatical form tied to a nonstandard loanword for “national,” chiefly encountered