Parantuneisiin

Parantuneisiin is a Finnish illative plural form of the participial noun parantuneet, meaning “the recovered.” It refers to a group of people who have recovered from illness or injury and is used when that group is treated as a destination or target of movement or inclusion in a sentence.

Formation and meaning: The stem parantuneet combines the participle parantunut with the plural ending -neet. The illative plural suffix -isiin attaches to that stem to yield parantuneisiin. The illative case expresses movement toward or inclusion in a set or group, so parantuneisiin is used to denote “into the recovered” or “to the recovered people” in formal contexts. The corresponding nominative plural is parantuneet, and the partitive plural is parantuneita.

Usage: Parantuneisiin appears mainly in formal or technical Finnish, such as health reports, epidemiological summaries, policy documents, or journalism that discusses groups defined by health status. It is less common in casual spoken Finnish, where more general constructions may be preferred. The term helps specify a particular cohort within a broader discussion of outcomes, recovery rates, or resource allocation.

Related considerations: Like other illative plural forms in Finnish, parantuneisiin exemplifies how direction or inclusion can be grammaticalized to refer to a defined group. It sits alongside other forms built from participles used as nouns, with parallel contrasts to parantuneet (nominative plural) and parantuneita (partitive plural).