Käskyiksi

Käskyiksi is the translative plural form of the Finnish noun käsky, meaning order or command. It denotes turning something into a set of orders or designating it as orders. The corresponding singular form, käskyksi, means “into a command” or “as a directive” for a single item.

The form is used primarily in formal, administrative, military, or legal language, where guidelines, policies, or directives are formalized as commands. It can also appear in religious or ethical texts when laws or rules are described as commandments. In everyday Finnish, more common phrases such as ohjeet or määräykset are often used instead of käskyiksi.

Usage examples include sentences like lausunnot muutettiin käskyiksi (the statements were turned into commands) or määrät viedään käytäntöön käskyiksi (the rules are implemented as commands). The phrase conveys a sense of formal designation or transformation into authoritative directives.

Etymology and grammar: käsky means command, and the suffix -ksi marks change of state or designation. In the plural, the form becomes käskyiksi to express “into commands” or “as commands” for multiple items. The construction is typical of Finnish predicative patterns that equate or transform one category into another.

See also: käsky, käskyt, Ten Commandments (Kymmenen käskyä).