Mutkikkaammaksi
Mutkikkaammaksi is a Finnish grammatical form derived from mutkikas, an adjective meaning winding, twisted, or intricate. The form is used to express a change of state toward a greater degree of those qualities. It is built in Finnish by taking the comparative stem mutkikkaampi and adding the translative suffix -maksi, resulting in mutkikkaammaksi. In practice, this form indicates “to become more winding/intricate.”
Mutkikkaammaksi signals that something is undergoing a change to a more complex or tangled condition. It is
- It often appears in sentences describing roads, plans, explanations, or designs that have grown more intricate
- Example pair: Polku mutkikkaammaksi muuttui sateen jälkeen. (The path became more winding after the rain.) Käsikirjoitus
- The base forms are mutkikas (windy/intricate) and mutkikkaampi (more winding/intricate); mutkikkaammaksi is the translative form used
- mutkikas: the simple adjective.
- mutkikkaampi: the comparative adjective meaning “more winding.”
- mutkikkaammaksi: the form used to describe a change toward that state, typically with a verb of
- mutkikas
Mutkikkaammaksi is a standard, though specialized, Finnish grammatical construction. It reflects Finnish’s system of forming degree