konttiin

Konttiin is a Finnish illative form of the noun kontti, meaning a container, storage box, or shipping container. In Finnish, illative forms indicate movement into something, so konttiin is used when describing going into or placing something into a container.

Kontti as a base word refers to a wide range of containers, from large freight containers used in logistics to smaller baskets, trunks, or boxes. Because of its broad meaning, kontti appears in everyday language as well as in technical or industrial contexts. The word is considered native to Finnish, and its usage is common in talk about storage, packing, recycling, and shipping.

Grammatical forms related to kontti include: nominative kontti, genitive kontin, partitive konttia; illative konttiin; inessive kontissa; adessive kontilla; allative kontille; translative kontiksi. These form changes reflect typical Finnish noun declension and help express location, direction, and state with kontti.

Usage examples:

- Vie roskat konttiin. (Take the trash to the container.)

- Laitoin tavaran konttiin. (I put the item into the container.)

These examples illustrate how konttiin communicates movement into a container and is often paired with verbs of placing or moving.

Related terms include kontti’s broader category of containers and, in some contexts, the loanword konteinero or konteiner, which denotes more specific container types such as shipping containers. Konttiin remains a common, neutral term in Finnish for discussing containers and related activities.