Otoksille

Otoksille is the allative plural form of the Finnish noun otos, meaning a sample, specimen, or excerpt. As a grammatical inflection, otoksille is not a standalone lexical item; it is used to indicate direction toward or toward objects that are samples or excerpts in a given context. The base noun otos belongs to everyday Finnish and appears in contexts such as laboratory sampling, data collection, or literary excerpts.

Morphology and forms

The word otos has several common forms in different cases and numbers. In the plural nominative it is otokset, in the plural partitive otoksia, and in the plural genitive otosten. The allative plural, otoksille, is formed by adding the allative suffix -lle to the plural stem. This suffix denotes direction toward multiple samples or toward a set of items considered as samples in a procedure or description.

Usage

Otoksille is primarily encountered in linguistic notes, grammar descriptions, or specialized contexts such as research protocols, laboratory instructions, or discussions of excerpts in editing. It is not a frequently used everyday term in Finnish prose, except when precisely referring to actions directed toward several samples or excerpts. In ordinary speech, speakers may instead use more general phrasing or rephrase to avoid explicit allative usage.

Example

Siirry otoksille. (Move toward the samples.) This illustrates the allative meaning of otoksille, indicating direction toward a set of samples.