Viileään

Viileään is the illative singular form of the Finnish adjective viileä, meaning cool or chilly. It denotes movement toward or into a space that is cool, and it is used before a noun to form an illative phrase such as viileään huoneeseen or viileään ilmaan, meaning “to the cool room” or “into the cool air.”

Grammatically, Finnish adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case. The illative singular is typically formed with the suffix -ään (depending on vowel harmony), so the form of viileä in the illative is viileään. When a noun is present, the adjective precedes it, and the illative applies to the entire noun phrase, for example viileään taloon (to the cool house) or viileään huoneeseen (to the cool room). The same pattern can be found with other adjectives describing temperature or atmosphere.

Usage notes: viileään conveys a sense of cooler-than-surroundings, appealing to physical temperature and, in some contexts, a comparatively pleasant or refreshing feel. It is most common in descriptive or narrative language about places, weather, or conditions. It is not usually used as an adverb; adverbs formed from adjectives often take the form viileästi (coolly) instead.

Examples:

- Mennään viileään huoneeseen. (Let’s go to the cool room.)

- Siirryimme viileään ilmaan. (We moved into the cool air.)

- He valitsivat viileän talon asuinpaikakseen. (They chose the cool house as their residence.)

See also: viileä, the base adjective; illatiivi (illative case) in Finnish grammar.