Analogiksi

Analogiksi is a Finnish grammatical form used to indicate that something is being treated as or transformed into an analogy. It is the translative case of the noun analogi, which means analogy or analogue. In Finnish, the translative suffix -ksi marks becoming or designation, so analogiksi literally means “into an analogy” or “as an analogy.” The form is primarily encountered in linguistic, rhetorical, or analytical writing where an author explicitly presents a term or concept as an analogy to another.

The word is related to the adjective analoginen (analogous) and the adverb analogisesti (analogically). Together, they form a family of terms used to discuss similarity, comparison, and correspondence between ideas or phenomena. Although analogiksi is a standard grammatical form, it is most likely to appear in scholarly or pedagogical contexts rather than in everyday language.

Usage typically involves framing or labeling a comparison. For example, in Finnish texts one might find sentences such as: Käytämme tätä esimerkkiä analogiksi ilmiön selittämiseksi. (We use this example as an analogy to explain the phenomenon.) or Termi X esitetään analogiksi Y suhteessa. (The term X is presented as an analogy to Y in relation to it.)

See also: analogia, analoginen, analogisesti. These related terms provide the broader semantic and grammatical context for discussions of similarity, correspondence, and comparative reasoning in Finnish.