Vahinkoon

Vahinkoon is the illative singular form of the Finnish noun vahinko, which means damage, harm, or accident. The illative case, marked by the suffix -on in this word, indicates motion toward or into the state described by the noun. In practice, vahinkoon is a grammatical form rather than a standalone concept, used when the sentence frames damage as a target state or outcome.

In usage, vahinkoon appears mainly in formal or written Finnish, including legal, insurance, and linguistic contexts, where damage is discussed as a consequence or result of an action. It can occur in constructions that relate events to the resulting damage or describe processes that lead to damage, though it is not common in everyday speech.

Morphology and related forms: The base word is vahinko. Related inflected forms include vahinko (nominative), vahinkoa (partitive or accusative), vahingon (genitive), and vahinkoja (plural). The illative vahinkoon is one of several cases used to express different grammatical functions tied to the concept of damage.

Etymology and semantics: vahinko derives from the root idea of harm or loss, and the illative suffix -on adapts it to express direction toward or into the state of damage. The combination is used within linguistic descriptions of Finnish grammar and in contexts where damage is treated as a state resulting from actions.

See also: vahinko; vahingonteko; vahingonkorvaus.