Kertymälle

Kertymälle is the illative singular form of the Finnish noun kertymä. Kertymä refers to an accumulation, build-up, stockpile, or deposit, and in broader terms to something that has gathered over time. The form kertymälle is used to express direction or destination toward that accumulation or deposit.

In Finnish, kertymä can denote both tangible and abstract accumulations. Tangible examples include a pile of materials in a warehouse or a sedimentary deposit in geology, while abstract uses can describe accumulated data, financial reserves, or a backlog of tasks. The term is common in technical, industrial, and scientific contexts where the idea of something being gathered or stored is central.

Etymologically, kertymä derives from the verb kertyä, meaning to gather or collect, with the nominalizing suffix -mä. The illative case suffix -lle marks direction toward a place or target, producing kertymälle to mean “to the accumulation” or “onto the pile.”

Usage notes: kertymälle tends to appear in formal or descriptive Finnish, especially in texts discussing storage, deposition, or accumulation processes. It is less common in casual everyday speech, where simpler phrasing may be used to convey the same idea. In any sentence, kertymälle functions to indicate that something is being directed toward or added to a specific accumulation or deposit.

See also: kertymä, kertyä.