Boulderongelmiksi

Boulderongelmiksi is a Finnish grammatical form used to express "into boulder problems" or "as boulder problems" from the noun boulderongelma. The base term refers to a problem or route in bouldering, a form of rock climbing performed on short, rope-less problems. The word is formed as a compound of the English loanword boulder and the Finnish word ongelma ("problem"), and the suffix -ksi/-iksi marks the translative case, indicating transformation or categorization. Thus boulderongelmiksi literally means "into boulder problems" and is used when describing that something is being treated as, or converted to, boulder problems.

In climbing discourse, boulderongelma denotes a single problem, while boulderongelmiksi is used when a group of items is considered or converted into boulder problems. The form is chiefly found in descriptive or analytical writing about training, curriculum, or competition formats. The plural translative boulderongelmiksi is also used for lists or statements about multiple problems. The singular counterpart is boulderongelmaksi.

Orthography varies: some writers hyphenate or write boulder-ongelma as an alternative; however, the combined form boulderongelma is common in modern Finnish climbing lexicon. The usage is niche and mostly encountered among climbers, coaches, and Finnish-language climbing publications. See also boulder problem, Finnish climbing terminology.