Pakastetuksi

Pakastetuksi is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective pakastettu, meaning frozen. It is the translative case of pakastettu and is used to express a change of state: something has become or has been turned into a frozen form. It conveys the result of freezing rather than the ongoing condition.

In usage, pakastetuksi appears with verbs of becoming, such as muuttua (to become) or tulla (to come into). For example, Vesi muuttui pakastetuksi (The water turned into ice). The form is also found in technical or production language to indicate that an item has been processed into a frozen product, for instance in phrases like pakastetuksi elintarvikkeeksi (made into frozen food).

Morphologically, pakastetuksi is formed by adding the translative suffix -ksi to the participial stem pakastettu. It contrasts with pakastettu, which is used as a straightforward descriptive adjective meaning “frozen,” and with other case forms such as pakastettuna or pakkastettuihin in different syntactic contexts.

See also: translative case, pakastaminen, elintarvikkeiden pakastaminen.