-uinen

See also: uinen

Finnish

Etymology

-uus +‎ -inen

Suffix

-uinen (front vowel harmony variant -yinen, linguistic notation -Uinen)

  1. Forms adjectives for indicating the degree of a property.

Usage notes

Superficially also used in korkuinen, laajuinen, levyinen, paksuinen, pituinen, suuruinen, syvyinen and vahvuinen, but these remain analyzable as -inen derivatives of -uus nouns.

Derived terms

Finnish terms suffixed with -uinen
aikuinen
vuotuinen

Further reading

  • Hakulinen, Lauri. 1941–2000. Suomen kielen rakenne ja kehitys ('The Structure and Development of the Finnish Language'). Helsinki: Otava/Helsingin yliopisto.
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