Reseptille

Reseptille is the allative form of the Finnish noun resepti, which commonly means recipe or prescription. In Finnish grammar, the allative case marks direction toward something or a destination, and a noun in this form often serves as the target of an action or movement. Reseptille therefore indicates “to the recipe” or “for the recipe” in contexts where the action is directed at the recipe as a goal or recipient.

Morphology and related forms: The noun resepti combines with the allative suffix -lle to produce reseptille. Finnish nouns have multiple case forms for different functions, such as genitive (reseptin), partitive (reseptiä), illative (reseptiin), adessive (reseptillä), inessive (reseptissä), elative (reseptistä), translative (reseptiksi), and essive (reseptinä). The allative form contrasts with the adessive form reseptillä, which means “on the recipe” or “at the recipe,” and with the illative reseptiin meaning “into the recipe.”

Etymology and usage: The word resepti is a loanword in Finnish, derived from historical European medical or culinary terminology that ultimately traces back to Latin recipe and related Romance-language terms. The allative form reseptille appears in written and formal Finnish where indicating destination or recipient is required, such as in administrative, healthcare, or instructional language.

Notes: The allative case is one of several tools Finnish uses to express spatial and directional relations without prepositions. Reseptille is a generic example of how the allative attaches to a stem ending in -ti, producing a form that signals target rather than location on or in. In everyday speech, other case forms or paraphrase may be preferred depending on context.