Lehdille

Lehdille is a Finnish grammatical form that serves as the allative case of the noun related to lehti, meaning either leaf or newspaper, depending on context. In use, lehdille signals movement toward or destination of multiple leaves or multiple newspapers, and it can therefore convey different senses in different situations.

In Finnish grammar, the allative case marks direction toward a location or target. Lehdille illustrates this function when the meaning pertains to leaves in a plant context (to the leaves) or to newspapers or the press (to the newspapers). The exact interpretation is determined by surrounding words and the intended sense of lehti in the sentence.

Usage of lehdille is more common in formal, poetic, or descriptive Finnish, and it appears primarily in constructions that emphasize direction or target. In everyday speech, speakers may prefer alternative expressions or more common case forms depending on the intended meaning, but lehdille remains a standard inflection for conveying movement toward a plural object that can be read as leaves or newspapers.

See also: Finnish grammar, allative case, lehti, lehtinen.