Peräkkäisempään

Peräkkäisempään is a Finnish inflected form that expresses a more sequential or consecutive manner. It is the illative singular of the comparative adjective peräkkäisempi, which derives from the base peräkkäinen meaning “in a row, successive.” In usage, peräkkäisempään signals that something is being done in a more ordered, stepwise, or ordered sequence than before.

Morphology and meaning: the form combines the comparative stem indicating increased sequentiality with the illative suffix that marks direction or manner in Finnish. This makes peräkkäisempään appropriate when describing how an action or process should be carried out “into” or “in a manner of” greater sequentiality. The construction is most common in formal or technical language, including linguistic, planning, and procedural texts.

Usage: peräkkäisempään is used in phrases such as peräkkäisempään tapaan or peräkkäisempään järjestykseen, meaning “in a more sequential manner” or “to a more sequential order.” It can appear in instructions, analyses, or descriptions where the speaker contrasts different ways of arranging events or steps. The term is relatively specialized and may be uncommon in everyday speech, but it is understood in Finnish-language formal writing and discourse about processes, workflows, or timelines.

Examples:

- Tapahtumat voidaan esittää peräkkäisempään tapaan, jolloin jokainen vaihe seuraa edellistä järjestyksessä.

- Suunnitelma laadittiin peräkkäisempään järjestykseen, jotta toteutus etenee vaiheittain.

See also: peräkkäinen, peräkkäisyys, illatiivi in Finnish grammar, comparative adjectives in Finnish.