digitaaliksi

Digitaaliksi is a Finnish translative form of the adjective digitaalinen and is used to express that something has become digital or has been converted into digital form. It appears in contexts describing changes, resulting states, or formats, such as when paper documents are transformed into digital ones or when information is provided in digital form. The construction is common in discussions of digitization and digital transformation.

Etymology and related terms: The word derives from digitaal- (digital) with the translative ending used to indicate a state into which something changes. Related terms in the same semantic field include digitalisaatio (digitalization), digitointi (digitization), and digitaalisuus (digitality). Finnish morphology provides several inflected forms around the same idea, depending on the syntactic needs of a sentence.

Usage notes: In Finnish, digitaaliksi often appears in policy, administrative, and technology discourse that concerns moving from analog to digital formats, improving accessibility, or delivering services digitally. It can modify nouns describing objects, documents, media, or systems that have been converted to or are available in digital form. The choice between digitaaliksi and related forms like digitaaliseksi or digitoituja depends on the specific verb and grammatical construction used to express the change.

See also: digitalisaatio, digitointi, digitaalisuus, digitaaliset palvelut.