Todisteille

Todisteille is the allative plural form of todiste (evidence) in Finnish. The allative case, marked by the suffix -lle, expresses direction toward or for something. Therefore todisteille translates roughly as “to the evidence” or “for the evidences,” depending on the syntactic role in a sentence.

Morphology: The noun todiste has the plural nominative todisteet. To form the allative plural, the suffix -lle is added to the plural stem, yielding todisteille. In use, todisteille behaves as a plural noun with allative meaning and appears in sentences where the evidence or evidentiary materials are recipients, targets, or objects of allocation or attention.

Usage: Todisteille is primarily found in formal, written Finnish—such as legal documents, administrative texts, academic writing, or journalistic reporting. It signals direction toward or allocation to the evidences rather than a simple plural subject. In everyday speech, speakers more often rely on the base plural todisteet or on other expressions such as todistusaineisto to convey nuances about evidence.

Typical collocations include todisteille asetetut vaatimukset (restrictions placed on the evidence) and todisteille osoitettu huomio (attention directed at the evidence). These illustrate how todisteille functions as a target or recipient within a broader clause.

See also: todiste, todisteet, todistusaineisto, allative case.