Konstruktivisiin

Konstruktivisiin is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective konstruktivinen, used before a plural noun in the illative case to express movement toward or reference to constructivist or constructive concepts, groups, aims, or contexts. It roughly corresponds to “to constructivist” or “toward constructive/constructivist” in English, depending on the noun it modifies.

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number, case, and definiteness. With a plural noun in illative case, the adjective takes the ending -isiin. Example: konstruktivisiin tavoitteisiin means “to constructivist/constructive goals.” Another example: konstruktivisiin ryhmiin means “into constructivist groups.” The precise translation depends on the sense of konstruktivinen in the noun phrase.

The term is commonly encountered in discussions of constructivism in philosophy, pedagogy, and art, where Finnish writers distinguish between konstruktivismi and related terms, and where adjectives are used to specify the extent of constructivist influence in projects, theories, or groups. It is not a standalone word with an independent meaning but a grammatical form that enables expression of direction or targeting within a sentence.

Related terms include konstruktivismi (constructivism) and konstruktivisti (a constructivist). The form konstruktivisiin can appear in any sentence that uses the illative plural to indicate movement toward or reference to multiple constructivist objects or ideas.