sosiaalisen

Sosiaalisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective sosiaalinen, meaning “social.” In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so sosiaalisen appears before a noun that is in the genitive case to express possession or a relation to social aspects. The form is common in formal, technical, and media language.

Typical usage examples include phrases such as sosiaalisen median algoritmit (the algorithms of social media), sosiaalisen verkoston kehittäminen (the development of the social network), and sosiaalisen oikeudenmukaisuuden edistäminen (the promotion of social justice). In contrast, the nominative form sosiaalinen is used when the noun it modifies is in the nominative, for example sosiaalinen media (social media) as a generic or subject phrase. The partitive form sosiaalista, and other case forms such as sosiaalisena (essive), appear in different grammatical contexts.

The word is built from the root sosiaali plus the adjectival ending -nen, a productive formation in Finnish for creating adjectives that describe welfare, society, or related concepts. Sosiaalisen is widely used across discussions of sociology, public policy, technology, and welfare, reflecting the broad application of “social” in Finnish discourse. In compound terms and prefixable formats, sosiaalinen frequently appears in combination with other nouns, contributing to a versatile vocabulary for describing social phenomena.