hyvän

Hyvään is the illative singular form of the Finnish adjective hyvä, meaning “into a good [something].” In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so hyvään appears before a noun in the illative case to express movement toward or into something regarded as good.

The form hyvään is used in phrases such as hyvään taloon (into a good house) or hyvään projektiin (into a good project). These examples illustrate how the illative suffix -ään attaches to the stem hyv- to create an adjective-inflected form that governs the illative noun. The base adjective hyvä has other inflected forms as well, such as hyvä (nominative), hyvän (genitive), and hyvää (partitive), illustrating how Finnish adjectives inflect to match their nouns.

In usage, hyvään is common in both written and spoken Finnish when the speaker wants to emphasize quality or desirability of the referred noun within the illative construction. It is not a standalone lexical entry; rather, it is one inflected form of the adjective hyv ä used to modify nouns in the illative case.

Beyond its grammatical role, hyvään does not carry an independent meaning outside of its function as an inflected form. It is part of the broader system of Finnish adjective inflection, demonstrating how mood and direction (into something) are encoded morphologically in the language.