alajaksoihin
Alajaksoihin is a Finnish noun form used in academic and descriptive Finnish to refer to movement into multiple subdivisions of a larger time span. It is the illative plural form of alajakso, which is composed of ala- meaning “sub” or “lower” and jakso meaning “period,” “cycle,” or “phase.” The suffix -iin (illative plural) signals direction toward or into something, so alajaksoihin translates roughly to “into subperiods” or “toward subperiods.”
The word follows standard Finnish compounding and case-marking patterns. Alajakso describes a subdivision of a broader
Alajaksoihin is used when a text discusses partitioning a time frame into smaller sequential or thematic segments.
Alajakso (subperiod), jakso (period, cycle), illative case and other Finnish case forms used to express location