sanarakenteen
Sanarakenteen (the word structure) refers to the internal composition of a word in Finnish linguistics: how its meaning and grammatical function are built from smaller units called morphemes. A word’s basic skeleton is a stem or root, to which derivational affixes may be attached to create new word classes, and inflectional suffixes indicate case, number, tense, mood, and other grammatical categories. Many Finnish words also form through compounding of two or more stems.
Finnish is commonly described as agglutinative: most grammatical information is expressed by attaching suffixes in a
For linguists and language technologies, analyzing sanarakenteen means identifying each morpheme and its function, and determining