Liukkaisiin

Liukkaisiin is a Finnish grammatical form of the adjective liukas, meaning slippery. It represents the illative plural form used when describing movement into or toward slippery things described by a plural noun. In practice, liukkaisiin appears with a plural noun in illative case, for example liukkaisiin pintoihin (into slippery surfaces) or liukkaisiin olosuhteisiin (into slippery conditions).

Usage and meaning

Liukkaisiin signals not only slipperiness as a property but also a directional sense of entering or encountering slippery conditions. The form is common in safety warnings, weather and road-condition reports, and descriptive text where multiple items or surfaces are characterized as slippery. Because Finnish adjectives agree with the noun they modify, liukkaisiin pairs with a plural noun in illative, yielding phrases that describe multiple slippery targets.

Morphology

In Finnish, illative plural endings for adjectives often appear as -isiin. Thus liukkaisiin is generated from liukas/liukkaat and attached to the stem to form the illative plural. The base meaning remains “slippery,” while the form indicates “into/slippery things” in a plural, illative sense.

Examples

- liukkaisiin pintoihin

- liukkaisiin olosuhteisiin

- varo liukkaisiin pinnoihin.

Etymology and relation

Liukkaisiin derives from liukas (slippery). It is one of several inflected forms Finnish uses to express nuanced relationships between adjectives and plural nouns in different cases.

See also

Finnish grammar, illative case, adjectives in Finnish.