puheluina

Puheluina is a Finnish inflected form of the noun puhelin (phone) that expresses the role or function of multiple devices as telephones, roughly translating to “as telephones.” It is formed by attaching a plural functional suffix to the stem puhelin and is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions and formal text rather than in everyday speech.

In Finnish grammar, forms like puheluina illustrate how the language marks the function or state of objects when describing their use. The singular equivalent, referring to a single device used as a phone, would be puhelimena (as a phone). Puheluina thus serves to talk about several devices that are being considered or used in the capacity of telephones.

Usage notes and context: Puheluina is most often found in dictionaries, grammar discussions, or historical/technical writing. It may appear in descriptions of equipment, inventories, or typological analyses where the emphasis is on the function of items as phones rather than on their physical identity. In everyday Finnish, speakers may opt for paraphrases or other constructions to convey the same idea, especially in informal contexts.

See also: Finnish grammar, translative and other inflectional forms, noun inflection in Finnish.