Tilastoituihin

Tilastoituihin is a Finnish grammatical form that serves as the illative plural of the past participle tilastoitua, derived from the verb tilastoida, meaning to tabulate or to perform statistical processing. As a participial adjective in illative plural, tilastoituihin is used to indicate direction toward or focus on items that have undergone statistical treatment. In effect, it helps describe data or records that are the subject of statistical handling.

In practice, tilastoituihin is used with a noun in illative plural to form phrases such as tilastoituihin tietoihin or tilastoituihin aineistoihin, meaning “to the tabulated data” or “to the tabulated datasets.” The form demonstrates how Finnish combines participles with case endings to express relations of destination or focus within a sentence, while also indicating that the referenced items have been processed statistically.

Usage and frequency: tilastoituihin is a specialized form primarily found in statistical, research, or administrative texts. It is not common in everyday language but is understood in contexts where precise reference to tabulated data or datasets is required.

Etymology: the word comes from tilastoida (“to tabulate”) plus the past participle tilastoitua, with the illative plural suffix -iin added to produce tilastoituihin.