Tietoon

Tietoon is a Finnish illative form of the noun tieto, meaning knowledge or information. It denotes direction toward knowledge or toward someone’s knowledge and is commonly used in formal and administrative language to indicate that information has become known or has been brought to attention.

Grammatical role and formation: Tietoon is the illative case of tieto in singular. The illative expresses movement into a state or location, in this case into knowledge or into the knowledge of someone. The form is often found in fixed phrases and in constructions that describe information becoming known.

Usage and common phrases: In everyday formal Finnish, tietoon is used in constructions such as bringing information to public knowledge, for example, uutiset tuotiin yleisön tietoon (the news was brought to the public’s knowledge). It also appears in phrases like tietoonsa tuli, meaning “it came to his/her knowledge” and tietoon saattaminen (the act of bringing information to knowledge). In many contexts, tietoon functions similarly to “to public knowledge” or “into the knowledge of,” rather than a physical destination.

Notes: Tietoon is strictly a grammatical form and does not by itself convey content; its meaning depends on the verb and context, particularly with verbs of bringing, informing, or becoming known. Related terms include tieto (knowledge/information) and the illative forms used with other abstract nouns.

See also: tieto, Finnish illative case, information and knowledge in Finnish.