Kliniikkaan

Kliniikkaan is the illative singular form of the Finnish noun klinikka, meaning "clinic." It marks movement toward or into a clinic, as in Hän meni klinikkaan saadakseen hoitoa.

Klinikka is a loanword in Finnish, borrowed from Swedish kliniken (the clinic) and linked to a broader European medical vocabulary that includes the English word clinic. The illative form klinikkaan is created by adding the illative suffix -an to the stem klinikka, yielding klinikkaan.

In Finnish, the illative is used to express direction or destination. Common forms of the word klinikka include nominative klinikka, genitive klinikan, and partitive klinikkaa, while the illative form is klinikkaan. An example sentence illustrating the illative is Hän meni klinikkaan hoitoa saadakseen. The term is widely used in healthcare contexts as well as everyday language to refer to entering a clinic.

See also: klinikka; illatiivi; Finnish grammar.