taivutustermejä

Taivutustermejä is a Finnish term referring to the vocabulary used to describe inflection in Finnish grammar. The concept covers the terms and labels used to classify how words change form to express grammatical functions such as number, case, possessive forms, tense, mood, and voice. Taivutustermejä are used in grammar descriptions, dictionaries, and language teaching to name the specific inflectional forms a word can take.

In nouns and adjectives, taivutustermejä include case names and number. Common cases are nominatiivi, genetiivi, partitiivi, inessiivi, elatiivi, illatiivi, adessiivi, abessiivi, allatiivi, essiivi, and translatiivi, along with singular and plural forms and possessive suffixes. In verbs, terms describe grammatical persons and numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; singular or plural), tense forms such as preesens (present), imperfekti (imperfect), perfekti (perfect), and pluskvamperfekti (past perfect), as well as mood and voice concepts like indikatiivinen (indicative), konditionaali (conditional), potentiaali (potential), and passiivi (passive).

The set of taivutustermejä can vary somewhat between grammars and educational materials, but the underlying purpose remains consistent: to provide a shared and systematic vocabulary for analyzing and teaching how Finnish words flex and connect within sentences. They facilitate comparison of forms across word classes and support learners and researchers in describing morphological patterns accurately.