Yleisempään

Yleisempään is a form in Finnish grammar. It is the illative singular of the comparative adjective yleisempi, which means more general or less specific. In other words, yleisempään appears when the comparison is extended into a phrase that expresses movement or direction into a more general category, sense, or purpose.

Morphology and formation: The base adjective yleisempi (more general) can take the illative case, yielding yleisempään. The illative suffix -ään/-ään, chosen according to vowel harmony and phonological rules, marks “into” or “toward” a destination in a figurative sense. Therefore yleisempään functions as a case form of the comparative adjective, not as an independent adverb or noun.

Usage: yleisempään is used with a following noun in illative to indicate entering or adopting a more general frame. For example, in a sentence like “siirryttiin yleisempään näkökulmaan,” the phrase means “we moved to a more general perspective.” Other examples include “yleisempään tarkoitukseen” (for a more general purpose) or “yleisempään kontekstiin” (into a more general context). The construction is common in written Finnish, especially in analytical or formal prose, where speakers discuss shifts from specific to general considerations.

Related terms: yleisempi is the positive form of the comparative, and yleisimmän is its superlative in other cases. The adverbial equivalent meaning generally is yleisesti. Understanding yleisempään requires recognizing its role as a case form of a comparative adjective rather than as a standalone word.

See also: yleinen, yleisempi, yleisimmin, yleisesti.