Attribuuttisiin

Attribuuttisiin is a Finnish grammatical form used in linguistic descriptions to refer to the illative plural of the adjective attribuuttinen, which means attributive or relating to an attribute. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, and when the noun is plural and in illative, the adjective can take the illative plural ending -isiin. Therefore attribuuttisiin can surface in phrases where a plural noun is in the illative case and is modified by an attributive adjective.

The illative case in Finnish commonly expresses movement toward or into something. When applied to adjectives in front of a plural noun in illative, the resulting form such as attribuuttisiin marks that the discussion concerns attributes or features in a directional or directional-like sense within a linguistic or analytical context. Because this is a specialized grammatical construction, attribuuttisiin occurs mainly in theoretical writing, grammars, and corpus studies rather than in everyday conversation.

A typical use is found in phrases describing discourse about attributes or feature sets. For example, attribuuttisiin piirteisiin liittyvät tutkimukset would translate roughly as studies related to the attributive features or features associated with attributes. While useful in formal analysis of noun phrases and modifiers, such forms are primarily of interest to students and scholars of Finnish syntax and morphology rather than ordinary language users.

See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, attributive (attribuuttinen), Finnish adjectives, noun phrase structure.