Harrastuspoluiksi

Harrastuspoluiksi is a Finnish translative form used to express that something is being turned into or designated as harrastuspolku, a recreational or hobby trail. The term appears in planning, documentation, and descriptive texts where a change of state or designation is being described. It can refer to eithersingular or plural forms depending on the subject, with the plural form also written as harrastuspoluiksi.

Harrastuspolku is a compound of harrastus (hobby or pastime) and polku (trail or path). The suffix -ksi expresses the translative case, indicating becoming or transformation: into a hobby trail. When used in plural contexts, the form remains harrastuspoluiksi. This form is commonly found in sentences describing planning or development processes, such as muuttaa, tehdä, kehittää, or suunnitella harrastuspoluiksi.

Usage examples illustrate its meaning: "Kaupungin reitit suunnitellaan harrastuspoluiksi" (The city’s routes are planned as hobby trails). "Hanke muuttaa vanhan polun harrastuspoluiksi" (The project converts the old trail into a hobby trail). In English, the concept corresponds to “into recreational trails” or “as recreational trails.”

Relation to related terms: harrastuspolku refers to the trail itself, while harrastuspoluiksi describes the designation or transformation into such trails. The form is primarily a grammatical tool in Finnish to express change of state and is widely used in municipal, tourism, and landscape-planning discourse.