Lipuihin

Lipuihin is a term used in Finnish linguistics to describe a specific inflected form that marks both direction and plurality. It is encountered as the illative plural form of certain nouns, formed by combining a stem with the illative plural suffix -iin, resulting in lipuihin. In Finnish, the illative case indicates movement toward or into something, and the plural form signals that this movement concerns multiple items.

Etymology and morphology

Lipuihin is analyzed as a combination of a noun stem (in this illustration, lipu- as the base) and the standard illative plural ending -iin, a pattern that exists for other stems in Finnish. The form is used primarily in grammatical descriptions to demonstrate how Finnish encodes location, direction, and number within a single suffix. It is not a common everyday lexical item, but rather a technical form that appears in teaching materials, grammars, and corpus discussions.

Usage and context

Lipuihin serves as an instructional example rather than a word with its own independent meaning. It helps illustrate Finnish inflection rules, especially how certain stems take an illative plural ending to express “into [these items]” or “toward these items” in the plural. In practice, it is most often encountered in language-learning contexts, linguistic analyses, and reference grammars.

See also

Finnish grammar, illative case, Finnish inflection, plural formation.