singularimuotoja

Singularimuotoja is a Finnish term that translates to "singular forms." In linguistics, it denotes the set of inflected forms a word takes when it expresses the singular number. Languages with grammatical number often distinguish between singular and plural; in some languages the distinction can be more complex, but the core idea is a word form used for one entity rather than many.

The singular form can appear across parts of speech, including nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs, and it may interact with other grammatical categories such as case, gender, tense, or person. The exact shape of a singular form is language-specific; in English, for example, the singular noun form dog contrasts with the plural dogs. In languages with richer inflection, the singular form may be paired with multiple case endings or agreement marks.

In lexicography and language technology, the singular form is often used as the lemma or base form from which other numbers are derived by applying inflection rules. Analyses, grammars, and parsers frequently treat singularimuotoja as a fundamental concept when describing how words change to indicate one item versus several.

See also: plural, grammatical number, lemmas, inflection.