-einen

einen Finnish Etymology fi -e -inen Suffix adjective eise Forms adjectives from verbs. fi kieltää to deny kielteinen negative fi kääntää to turn, invert käänteinen inverse fi lämmittää to heat -lämmitteinen -heated, heated (with) fi taittaa to fold taitteinen folded fi valmistaa to make, manufacture -valmisteinen -made, -manufactured Usage notes Attached to the (strong) verbal stem, with -e- generally replacing the final vowel. Mostly attached to verbs with stems ending in fi -(t)ta- or fi -(t)tä-, e.g. verbs containing the suffix fi -taa, fi -ttaa or any of their variants like fi -oittaa. Use with other verbs is much less common. Quite a few of the adjectives derived with this suffix are not used independently, only as a headword in compound adjectives (e.g. the aforementioned fi -lämmitteinen in fi sähkölämmitteinen electrically heated). Declension adj -ei a adj -ei ä Derived terms fi References 275 Taustalla toinen johdin