kioskiin

Kioskiin is the illative form of the Finnish noun kioski, meaning into the kiosk or to the kiosk. It is used to express movement toward and into a kiosk, such as a small shop or newsstand. Finnish grammar uses the illative case to indicate destination or direction for verbs of motion, with different suffixes depending on the noun’s ending. For words ending in a vowel, the illative can produce forms that end in -iin, yielding kioskiin for kioski.

Examples illustrate its use: Menen kioskiin ostamaan kahvia. (I am going into the kiosk to buy coffee.) He menivät kioskiin hakemaan lehteä. (They went into the kiosk to fetch a newspaper.)

Related forms in the same noun paradigm include kioskin (genitive, “of the kiosk”), kioskissa (inessive, “in the kiosk”), kioskista (elative, “out of the kiosk”), and kioskille (allative, “to the kiosk”). These illustrate how Finnish uses case endings to mark different spatial relations and directional nuances.

Etymology and usage notes: kioski is a loanword widely used in Finnish to denote a small stand, shop, or newsstand. The illative form kioskiin is a regular product of Finnish case morphology, reflecting movement toward and into a defined place. The word is common in everyday Finnish and appears across regional varieties, from urban to rural contexts.