Digitaalliseen

Digitaalliseen is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective digitaallinen (or more commonly digitaalinen), meaning digital. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so digitaallinen/digitaalinen can take different endings to express grammatical cases such as illative (into/onto). The form digitaalliseen is the illative singular for an adjective stemming from a digitaali- base, used to indicate movement toward or into something digital.

In practice, digitaalliseen is encountered in phrases such as digitaalliseen muotoon (into digital form) or digitaalliseen maailmaan (into the digital world). It signals a shift or transition related to digital technologies or states. The illative form is part of standard Finnish grammar, but the specific digitaalliseen variant is less common in everyday speech and appears more often in formal, literary, or stylistic contexts.

Relation to other forms is relevant for language users: the more widespread modern adjective for most contemporary contexts is digitaalinen, with corresponding cases like digitaaliseen (into the digital) or digitaalisen (of the digital). Digitaalliseen can be seen as a historical or stylistic variant rather than a separate semantic category. It may appear in older texts, certain dialects, or deliberate stylistic constructions to evoke a traditional or formal tone.

See also: digitalization, digital economy, Finnish grammar, illative case.