kaulukseen

Kaulukseen is the illative case form of the Finnish noun kaulus, meaning collar. In Finnish grammar the illative indicates movement toward or into something, often translated as “into” or “to” in English phrases describing direction. The base noun kaulus, which can refer to a collar or neckline of a garment, takes the illative suffix -seen to form kaulukseen in the singular.

The form kaulukseen is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions, language instruction, and dictionaries that illustrate Finnish case endings. It is not a word that tends to appear in everyday conversational Finnish outside of discussions about grammar or very specific garment-related contexts. For learners, recognizing the illative suffix -seen helps identify directional meaning when the noun ends with -lus or -ulus, among other patterns, though Finnish morphology varies by root and phonology.

In the broader system of Finnish cases, illative is one of several locative cases used to express direction or destination. Other cases include inessive (inside), elative (out of), allative (onto/onto towards), and adessive (on). Knowledge of these endings supports parsing of noun phrases and the correct interpretation of movement toward a target or location.

See also Finnish grammar; illative case; kaulus. References to standard Finnish grammar handbooks and reputable language resources can provide additional examples and explanations of illative formation patterns and their usage in contemporary Finnish.