Tilalliseen

Tilalliseen is a Finnish linguistic form describing a specific inflection of the adjective tilallinen. The base tilallinen means “estate-related,” derived from tila, meaning estate or farm, with the adjectival suffix -lainen indicating belonging or relation. Tilalliseen is the illative singular form of that adjective, used when the associated noun is in the illative case.

In practical terms, tilalliseen appears in phrases where the noun it modifies is in illative, such as tilalliseen taloon, meaning “into the estate-related house.” The illative suffix -iseen (or -iseen in the tone of the stem) is attached to the adjective to reflect movement toward or into the modified noun within the illative construction. Because such constructions require a noun in illative, tilalliseen is most often found in carefully constructed sentences, historical texts, or linguistic examples rather than in everyday modern Finnish.

Usage and context: tilalliseen is primarily of interest to students and scholars of Finnish morphology, grammar, or historical agrarian language. It may appear in agrarian records, legal documents, or dialect literature where precise descriptive phrases about estates, farms, or tenancy are analyzed or cited. In contemporary prose, speakers typically rephrase to avoid less common illative-adjective forms.

See also: tilallinen, tila, illative case, Finnish grammar, Finnish adjectives.