kannatuksiin

Kannatuksiin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun kannatus, which means endorsement, backing or support for a proposal, cause, or candidate. The term sits in the class of -us nouns in Finnish and is formed from the stem kannatus, related to the verb kannattaa, “to support.” The illative case marks direction toward or into something, and the plural illative suffix for this noun is -uksiin, yielding kannatuksiin.

In practical use, kannatuksiin is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, or formal texts that list grammatical forms. It is not a common everyday form in ordinary speech; speakers more often use kannatus (singular or plural as appropriate) to refer to endorsements, or kannattajat to refer to supporters.

Morphology and related forms:

- Nominative singular: kannatus

- Illative singular: kannatukseen

- Nominative plural: kannatukset

- Illative plural: kannatuksiin

Related terms and distinctions:

- Kannatus: endorsement or backing; the base word for this form.

- Kannattajat: supporters or backers of a person or cause.

- Tuki: support or backing in a more general sense, often used outside the specific political or organizational context.

Kannatuksiin thus represents a precise grammatical form used mainly in formal or linguistic contexts to denote “into the endorsements” or “to the endorsements” in the plural illative.