Kulhoihin

Kulhoihin is the Finnish illative plural form of the noun kulho, meaning bowls. It functions to express movement or placement into multiple bowls, translating roughly as into bowls or to bowls. The form is used when the action targets several containers rather than a single bowl.

In use, kulhoihin appears in cooking, serving, and portioning instructions. Examples include: “Lisää ainekset kulhoihin ja sekoita,” meaning “Add the ingredients into the bowls and mix,” and “Jaa taikina kulhoihin,” meaning “Divide the dough into bowls.” It can also appear in sentences describing transfer or pouring into several bowls, such as “Kaada taikina kulhoihin,” or “Siirrä loppupäätteen kulhoihin.” The phrase helps specify both the destination (into the bowls) and the plural nature of the containers.

Grammatically, kulhoihin is formed by taking the base kulho and adding the illative plural suffix that marks direction toward multiple containers. It contrasts with kulhoon (into a bowl) in singular usage and with kulhojen (the bowls’/bowls in possessive/genitive contexts) in other cases. Finnish has various case endings that change with number and vowel harmony, and kulhoihin is a standard example of the illative plural in everyday language.

See also: Finnish language, illative case, plural forms, grammar of number agreement.