vihreän

Vihreän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective vihreä, meaning green. In Finnish, adjectives are declined to agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so vihreän is used when the modified noun is singular and in the genitive case.

Uses and function

Vihreän appears in noun phrases to indicate possession or a relationship to a green noun. It is not a standalone noun, but part of a larger grammatical construction. Common contexts include describing ownership or attributes of a definite noun, for example when the noun is in the genitive: vihreän talon katto = the roof of the green house, vihreän lehden väri = the color of the green leaf.

Forms and related terms

The base form is vihreä, meaning green. Other related forms include vihreää (partitive singular) and vihreiden (genitive plural), used when the modified noun is plural or in different cases. The form vihreän specifically marks genitive singular of the adjective.

Notes

Vihreän is a typical example of how Finnish adjectives inflect to agree with nouns in compounds and possessive constructions. It does not function as a noun by itself in standard usage; the color concept is usually expressed through the noun or through the noun phrase in which vihreän appears.

See also

Finnish color adjectives, Finnish grammar, adjective declension, genitive case.