Puhallettuun

Puhallettuun is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb puhaltaa, meaning to blow or to exhale. The base participle puhallettu means “blown” or “formed by blowing,” and puhallettuun is its illative singular form, used to indicate the target or destination of the action in contexts where something is described as being blown into or into which something is blown. In practice, puhallettuun appears mainly in descriptive phrases rather than as a standalone lexical item.

Usage and context

The form is most commonly found in technical or descriptive writing related to processes that involve blowing, such as glassblowing or candy shaping, where objects are described in terms of how they are created or modified by blowing. For example, phrases like puhallettuun lasiin describe a state or action related to a piece of glass that has been formed by blowing into it. The illative form allows speakers to specify direction or destination within a sentence without resorting to a separate clause.

Morphology and related forms

Puhallettu serves as the past participle base meaning “blown.” Other related forms include puhallettua (partitive) and puhallettuja (plural forms used in adjectival or noun phrases). The illative suffix -uun attaches to the participle stem to produce puhallettuun, illustrating how Finnish frequently combines participles with case endings to express nuanced meanings about process and direction.

See also

Puhallettu, puhaltaminen (blowing), glassblowing, sugar art.