Kertoiksi
Kertoiksi is a Finnish form that appears in linguistic and stylistic discussions as a way to express “in the form of stories” or “as stories.” It is built from the verb kertoa (to tell) with the suffix -ksi, which in Finnish commonly marks function, role, or transformation (for example, tarinaksi meaning “as a story”). Compared with more standard narrative forms like tarinaksi or kertomukseksi, kertoiksi is infrequent and not widely listed in standard grammars. Its use is largely literary or theoretical, serving to illustrate how verb stems can be converted to a narrative function.
Kertoiksi derives from the stem kert- of kertoa, combined with the derivational suffix -ksi. The -ksi suffix
The form kertoiksi is rare in everyday Finnish. It is primarily encountered in linguistic examples, stylistic