etäisyyteen
Etäisyyteen is a Finnish inflected form of the noun etäisyys, meaning distance. It is the illative singular form, used to express direction toward a distance or movement into a distance, as well as to indicate attainment of a certain extent in space, time, or a figurative sense. In Finnish, illative is one of the locative cases that marks destination or toward-ness and is commonly used with verbs of motion or with expressions describing reach or proximity.
In practice, etäisyyteen appears in sentences where the speaker is describing approaching or aiming toward a
Formation and related forms: etäisyyteen is formed by attaching the illative suffix to the stem etäisyys. Finnish