perusnäkyvän

Perusnäkyvän is a Finnish linguistic term referring to the genitive singular form of the compound adjective perusnäkyvä, which translates roughly to "basic visible" or "fundamentally visible." The construction illustrates how Finnish adjectives agree with nouns in case; when the noun is in the genitive, the adjective takes the genitive singular ending, yielding perusnäkyvän. In general, perusnäkyvä consists of perus- (basic) and näkyvä (visible), and is used in descriptive discussions of appearance, visibility, or default states in design or messaging contexts.

In scholarly Finnic grammar, perusnäkyvän is encountered in analyses of attributive adjective phrases and in examples that demonstrate inflection patterns for adjectives in the genitive. It does not denote a separate lexical item beyond its grammatical form. The term is primarily of interest to linguists, Finnish language learners, and style guides that discuss adjective agreement and noun phrase structure. It is rarely used outside academic or educational materials and not common in everyday Finnish.

Related topics include Finnish grammar, adjective inflection, and the genitive case. Understanding perusnäkyvän helps illustrate how Finnish marks grammatical relations within noun phrases and how compound adjectives are formed and declined.