kattiloihin

Kattiloihin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun kattila, meaning cooking pot. It is used to indicate movement toward multiple pots, describing actions where liquid or material is placed into several containers.

In Finnish grammar, the illative case expresses direction into something and is commonly used with verbs of motion or change of state. Kattiloihin therefore marks the destination as “into the pots” or “to the pots.” The form appears with plural nouns, in this example cattiloihin, to show that the action involves more than one pot.

Usage examples are typical in cooking contexts. For instance, one might say, Kaada vettä kattiloihin, meaning “Pour water into the pots.” Because the object in such constructions is typically indefinite, the water is expressed in the partitive case (vettä) while kattiloihin remains in illative plural. The construction is common in recipe directions, kitchen instructions, and descriptive narration of multi-pot tasks.

Etymologically, kattiloihin combines the root kattila (pot) with the standard illative plural suffix used for referencing into multiple objects. The form is part of standard Finnish and widely understood across dialects.

See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, kattila.