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Adjektiivi

1. Capable of forming something.
2. (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
3. (linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
4. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
5. (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

Substantiivi

1. A thing which causes formation to occur.
2. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
3. Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).