Tiilille

Tiilille is the allative inflected form of the Finnish noun tiili, meaning brick. The allative case in Finnish marks direction toward a destination or recipient. It is formed by adding the suffix -lle to the noun stem, producing tiilille from tiili. The form is relatively rare in everyday speech and is most often found in linguistic explanations, construction documentation, or descriptive texts that require explicit indication of a destination involving bricks or brick-related materials.

Morphology and phonology: tiili; genitive tiilin; allative tiilille; the pattern follows the general Finnish allative paradigm. The suffix interacts with the stem to produce a smooth pronunciation: tiili + lle -> tiilille.

Usage: Tiilille can refer to a destination on a construction site, e.g., a place where bricks are moved, stored, or delivered, or used in didactic settings to illustrate case usage. It does not function as a common everyday noun and is not widely used outside of specific contexts. The term demonstrates how Finnish uses case endings to express spatial and directional relations with concrete nouns.

See also: Finnish grammar; Allative case; Tiili.