Tunnisteille

Tunnisteille is a Finnish inflected form of the noun tunniste, which means "tag", "identifier" or "label". Grammatically, tunnisteille is the plural allative case, used to indicate direction toward, purpose for, or the recipient of an action — in English roughly "to the tags" or "for the identifiers".

The form illustrates Finnish case morphology: the base noun tunniste (plural tunnisteet) takes the allative ending -lle in plural as -ille, producing tunnisteille. It is used in contexts where something is assigned, directed, given, or intended for multiple tags or identifiers. For example, a sentence like "Lähetä tiedot tunnisteille" translates as "Send the data to the tags/identifiers."

Tunnisteille appears frequently in technical and administrative language, especially in computing, database design, and metadata management, where tags and identifiers are common objects of actions such as assignment, updating, or querying. It also occurs in everyday contexts involving labels, nameplates, or tokens.

Related forms include tunniste (nominative singular), tunnisteet (nominative plural), tunnisteelle (allative singular), and tunnisteilla (adessive plural). Understanding tunnisteille helps illustrate how Finnish expresses indirect objects, recipients, and directional relations through case endings rather than prepositions.