-uinen

== Finnish == === Etymology === -uus +‎ -inen === Suffix === -uinen (front vowel harmony variant -yinen, linguistic notation -Uinen) 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 ==== === Further reading === Hakulinen, Lauri. 1941–2000. Suomen kielen rakenne ja kehitys ('The Structure and Development of the Finnish Language'). Helsinki: Otava/Helsingin yliopisto.