sanamuotokohtaiset

Sanamuotokohtaiset is a Finnish term that translates to "word-form specific" or "lexical variant" in English. It refers to a specific inflectional form of a word. In Finnish, like in many other agglutinative languages, words can change their endings to indicate grammatical function, tense, number, case, and other properties. Each of these distinct forms is considered a "sanamuoto" (word form), and when discussing these specific forms, the adjective "sanamuotokohtaiset" is used.

For example, the noun "talo" (house) has many different sanamuodot, such as "talossa" (in the house, inessive case), "talosta" (from the house, elative case), and "taloon" (into the house, illative case). Each of these is a distinct sanamuoto. The term sanamuotokohtaiset is used when a linguistic analysis or description focuses on the properties or behavior of these individual word forms rather than the base word (lemma) itself. This is particularly relevant in fields like computational linguistics, natural language processing, and morphology, where understanding the nuances of word forms is crucial for tasks such as parsing, translation, and information retrieval. The concept highlights the rich inflectional system of the Finnish language and the importance of recognizing and distinguishing between its many word forms.