karvaväriin

Karvaväriin is the illative form of the Finnish noun karvaväri, a compound of karva (fur, hair) and väri (color). Karvaväri refers to the coloration of an animal’s fur or coat, and the term is used mainly in zoological, veterinary, and breeding contexts to describe coat color.

In Finnish grammar, the illative suffix -in marks movement into or toward a state, so karvaväriin is used when indicating a change to a particular coat color category or when designating a target color in descriptive or diagnostic contexts. The form appears most often in scientific or technical texts that discuss phenotypes, coat-color variation, or taxonomy of species.

For everyday language, karvaväri is more commonly used, with other cases applied as needed (for example, karvaväriä in the partitive). The illative form karvaväriin is thus primarily a specialized variant that facilitates precise linguistic expressions in contexts where a direction toward a color state or a change into that state is being described.

See also:

- Karva

- Väri

- Karvaväri (coat color)