Tilapäisiin

Tilapäisiin is a Finnish grammatical form used as the illative plural of the adjective tilapäinen, meaning temporary. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and the illative plural form is used with plural nouns when indicating movement toward or into a group, category, or situation described by the adjective.

Usage and meaning

Tilapäisiin signals that something relates to temporary conditions or purposes and is being viewed in the illative case, which commonly conveys direction or destination. It appears with plural nouns and is part of phrases that express going toward or applying to temporary things.

Examples

- tilapäisiin tarkoituksiin — for temporary purposes

- tilapäisiin töihin — into temporary jobs

- tilapäisiin tarpeisiin — for temporary needs

Relation to related forms

Tilapäiseen is the base adjective meaning temporary. Its other inflectional forms include tilapäiset (nominative plural), tilapäisten (genitive plural), tilapäisesti (adverbial form meaning temporarily), and numerous other case forms for different numbers and cases. The form tilapäisiin specifically marks illative plural.

Etymology and grammar

The word tilapäinen derives from Finnish roots meaning state or condition with the -inen suffix forming an adjective. Tilapäisiin, as the illative plural, illustrates how Finnish adjectives decline to reflect both number (plural) and case (illative) while maintaining the core meaning of “temporary.”

See also

tilapäinen, tilapäisesti, illatiivi and other inflection forms of the word tilapäinen.