Taivutuksiin

Taivutuksiin is the illative plural form of taivutus, a Finnish noun meaning inflection or the act of inflecting. In linguistic and language-learning contexts, taivutus refers to the system of changing a word’s form to express grammatical categories such as case, number, or mood. Taivutuksiin, as a specific inflected form, represents “to the inflections” or “to the inflectional forms” in plural illative usage.

Formation and grammar

In Finnish, taivutus takes the illative plural suffix -iin to indicate movement toward inflections or toward the inflectional forms themselves. The illative plural suffix -iin follows Finnish vowel harmony, and its choice reflects standard paradigms for forming illative plurals. The stem taivutus generally remains unchanged for this form, though other words may undergo typical changes seen in Finnish inflection, such as consonant gradation or vowel alternation in different cases.

Usage and context

The form taivutuksiin appears mainly in grammar descriptions, linguistic analyses, dictionaries, and educational texts. It is used to illustrate how illative plural forms are constructed and how inflectional categories are expressed in Finnish. In everyday language, speakers are more likely to use a different construction or several words to convey the idea of inflection or of moving toward inflected forms, rather than the specific noun phrase taivutuksiin.

See also

Finnish grammar, taivutus (inflection), illative case, inflection.