Tehtäviin

Tehtäviin is the Finnish illative plural form of the noun tehtävä, which translates as “task,” “exercise,” or “assignment” in English. In Finnish grammar the illative case denotes movement toward something, and the plural ending –iin signals that the reference is to multiple items. Consequently, tehtäviin conveys the meaning “into the tasks” or “to the assignments,” and it is commonly used when describing the allocation of effort, the direction of study, or the placement of items within a set of tasks.

In educational contexts, the phrase appears in instructions such as “Siirry tehtäviin” (“Proceed to the tasks”) or “Lisää aineisto tehtäviin” (“Add the material to the assignments”). It is also employed in software and project‑management terminology, where users may be prompted to “tallenna tiedot tehtäviin” (“save the data to the tasks”). The word reflects the Finnish tendency to encode spatial relations directly in noun morphology rather than using prepositions.

The base noun tehtävä originates from the verb tehdä (“to do”) combined with the suffix –vä, which forms agent nouns. Historically, tehtävä referred to a duty or a problem to be solved, and over time it expanded to include exercises in textbooks, work items in professional settings, and even programmed functions in computing. The illative plural tehtäviin thus functions as a concise way to reference the collective set of such items.

Understanding tehtäviin requires familiarity with Finnish case endings: the singular illative is tehtävään, while the plural form switches to tehtäviin. This pattern aligns with other Finnish nouns ending in –ä, where the plural illative replaces the singular –ään with –iin. The term exemplifies how Finnish morphology conveys nuanced relationships without auxiliary words.