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parillisen

Parillisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective parillinen, meaning "even." In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and the genitive singular form parillisen is used when the noun is in the genitive case. For example, parillisen luvun ominaisuudet means “the properties of the even number.” The base form, parillinen, has other inflections such as parillinen (nominative), parillista (partitive), and parillisia (plural).

In mathematics, parillinen describes even numbers—integers divisible by two without a remainder. The concept is part

Usage in Finnish texts often involves parillisen when discussing a property of a specific even number in

See also: pariton, parity concepts, even numbers.

of
parity,
contrasted
with
pariton,
which
means
odd.
Common
properties
include:
0
and
all
multiples
of
2
are
parillisia;
the
sum
or
difference
of
two
parilliset
numbers
is
parillinen;
the
product
of
an
parillinen
number
and
any
integer
is
parillinen;
and
the
sum
of
an
even
and
an
even
number
is
even.
A
typical
way
to
test
evenness
is
to
check
if
n
mod
2
equals
0.
the
genitive
case,
or
in
phrases
describing
the
set
or
characteristics
of
even
numbers.
For
instance,
“parillisen
luvun
ominaisuudet”
refers
to
the
properties
of
the
even
number,
or
more
generally
to
the
even
numbers
in
a
given
context.