Hallintoon

Hallintoon is the illative form of the Finnish noun hallinto, meaning administration or governance. In Finnish, the illative case marks movement toward or into a domain, often used in formal or descriptive language to indicate entering or joining an administrative sphere.

Formation and use: The illative suffix -oon attaches to the stem hallinto, producing hallintoon. The form is common in official texts, policy discussions, and legal or governmental language. It often appears with verbs such as siirtyä (to move to/into) or kuulua (to belong to), as in phrases like hallintoon siirtyminen or hallintoon kuuluvat tehtävät.

Common contexts: Hallintoon is used to describe actions, responsibilities, or matters associated with the administration. It can denote a transition into administrative duties, the scope of administrative authority, or entities that belong to the administration. For example, hallintoon liittyvät asiat refers to matters related to the administration, while hallintoon kuuluvat tehtävät refers to tasks that belong to the administration.

Relation to other forms: Hallintoon constitutes one form within the broader inflection system of hallinto. The nominative is hallinto, the partitive is hallintoa, and the illative is hallintoon. Understanding hallintoon helps in parsing Finnish governance and public administration texts where direction toward the administrative domain is being described.

See also: hallinto, Finnish grammar and cases, illative case.