Kokonaiseen

Kokonaiseen is a Finnish grammatical form. It is the illative singular of the adjective kokonainen, which means “whole” or “entire.” In Finnish, adjectives that modify a noun in a given case take the corresponding inflection; when the noun is in the illative case, the adjective also takes an illative ending, yielding kokonaiseen.

Usage and nuance: The form emphasizes the object as a single, intact whole rather than as a collection of parts. It tends to appear in formal, literary, or emphatic contexts rather than in everyday speech. The illative kokonaiseen is used with singular nouns in illative, such as when describing movement toward or into something regarded as a whole.

Examples: Hän meni kokonaiseen taloon. (He entered the entire house.) Tutkimus kohdistui kokonaiseen järjestelmään. (The study focused on the entire system.) These examples show how kokonaiseen appears with nouns in illative, reinforcing the sense of wholeness or completeness.

Etymology: Kokonaiseen is formed from the stem kokonainen plus the illative suffix -iseen, a pattern seen with adjectives ending in -ainen when used with illative nouns.

See also: kokonainen, kokonaisuus, illatiivi (illative case) in Finnish grammar. Although kokonaiseen is a regular inflected form, it is relatively specialized and most often encountered in written Finnish or precise descriptive contexts.