hallituksi

Hallituksi is a Finnish grammatical form related to the noun hallitus, which means government or administration. As a translative form of hallitus, hallituksi expresses the sense of becoming or being designated as a government in certain formal contexts. It is not a widely used standalone lexical item in everyday language.

In Finnish, the translative case is formed with the suffix -ksi, or -kseksi in some spellings, and it denotes a change into or designation as something. The more common translative form for government is hallitukseksi, used in phrases such as “nimitettiin hallitukseksi” (appointed as the government). Hallituksi, by contrast, appears mainly in more specialized or older texts and in fixed expressions, where the intended sense is closer to designation as a governing body or transformation into a governmental role.

Usage and nuance: hallituksi is a rarer form and is typically encountered in formal legal, historical, or bureaucratic prose rather than in everyday speech. When expressing becoming or being designated as a government in contemporary Finnish, speakers are more likely to use hallitukseksi. The form hallitus itself remains the standard noun for the institution or act of governing, while hallituksi functions primarily as a grammatical variant used in specific contexts.

See also: hallitus (government/administration), hallita (to govern/control), hallinto (administration).