sinisemmän

Sinisemmän is a grammatical inflection in Finnish. It is the genitive singular form of the comparative adjective sinisempi, which means “bluer” or “more blue.” It is not a standalone lexical item with a separate meaning; rather, it is an inflected form used when the noun it modifies is in the genitive case.

Etymology and morphology: The comparative sinisempi is formed from the stem sinis- (from sininen, blue) with the suffix -empi. The genitive singular ending of this adjective form is -män, producing sinisemmän. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in case and number, so sinisemmän occurs specifically when the modified noun is in genitive.

Usage: The form sinisemmän is relatively uncommon in everyday speech and is most likely to appear in written or formal contexts, such as art criticism, scientific descriptions of color, or language analysis. It serves to express a more precise comparison within a genitive noun phrase, for example describing colors, tones, or qualities associated with a noun in genitive.

Examples:

- Taivas on sinisempi tänä aamuna. (The sky is bluer this morning.)

- Tässä lauseessa viitataan sinisemmän värin ilmaisemiseen. (In this sentence, the expression of the bluer color is referred to.)

- Sinisemmän sävyn vertailu auttaa kuvailemaan värien eroja. (Comparing the bluer shade helps describe color differences.)

See also: Finnish grammar, comparative adjectives, sininen.