kosmologiseen

Kosmologiseen is the illative singular form of the Finnish adjective kosmologinen, meaning cosmological. It is used when the noun it describes is in the illative case, typically indicating movement toward or relation to something in a cosmological context. In practice, kosmologiseen appears in phrases like kosmologiseen teoriaan or kosmologiseen malliin, conveying “to a cosmological theory” or “to a cosmological model,” and more broadly “in relation to cosmology.”

Grammatically, kosmologinen is a regular -inen adjective in Finnish, so its illative singular ending is -iseen. This pattern is common among adjectives ending in -inen, and it agrees with the genderless Finnish noun it modifies in the illative case. Other cases yield kosmologisen (genitive), kosmologista (partitive), kosmologisessa (inessive), kosmologisesta (elative), and so on, depending on the sentence structure.

Usage and contexts: kosmologiseen is common in academic and scientific Finnish, especially in fields such as physics, astronomy, and philosophy, where cosmology is discussed. It functions to connect a noun phrase to the broader field of cosmology, for example: “artikkeli käsittelee kosmologiseen teoriaan liittyviä havaintoja” (the article deals with observations related to cosmological theory) or “tutkimuksessa käytettiin kosmologiseen malliin sovellettavia menetelmiä” (methods applicable to a cosmological model were used).

Etymology: kosmologinen derives from kosmologia, the study of the universe, which in turn comes from Greek kosmos 'world, universe' and -logia 'study of.' The form kosmologiseen reflects Finnish inflection rules for adjectives.