Viittäksi

Viittäksi is a Finnish inflected form derived from the numeral viisi (five). It is formed by taking the partitive stem viittä from the numeral and adding the suffix -ksi, a suffix in Finnish that commonly marks designation, transformation, or role. The result, viittäksi, expresses a sense of “into five” or “as five” in contexts where a value or quantity is being converted or assigned to the category of five.

In practice, viittäksi is not a widely used word in everyday standard Finnish. It appears mainly in linguistic discussions, grammar explanations, or pedagogical materials as an illustration of numeral inflection and the use of the -ksi suffix with numerals. Because it functions primarily as a grammatical example rather than a common lexical item, occurrences of viittäksi are typically confined to textbooks, grammars, or corpus notes rather than routine prose.

The form is of interest to students of Finnish and to linguists because it demonstrates how numerals can take the -ksi suffix to express conversion, designation, or role. It is part of a broader pattern in Finnish where numerals can be treated similarly to nouns in certain constructions, though the specific form viittäksi is most relevant in discussions about five and its related inflection. Related topics include Finnish grammar, numerals in Finnish, and the suffix -ksi.