kouluihin

Kouluihin is a Finnish word that represents the illative plural form of koulu, meaning school. It translates roughly to “to the schools” or “into the schools” and is used to express movement toward multiple school locations or entry into multiple schools. The illative case marks direction or destination, and the plural form indicates more than one school.

Kouluihin is common in everyday language and in written Finnish when discussing actions that involve several schools. For example, it can appear in sentences about traveling to more than one school, distributing materials to different schools, or analyzing activities that take place at multiple educational sites. An example sentence is: Mennään kouluihin tapaamaan oppilaita. This usage shows how the form signals destination rather than a single, specific place.

Morphology and related forms: the base word is koulu (school). The plural nominative is koulut, while the singular illative is kouluun (to a school). The illative plural form is kouluihin (to the schools). Finnish nouns change case to express relations such as location, direction, or possession, and kouluihin is the standard illative plural form for this noun.

See also: koulu, illatiivi, Finnish noun inflection, Finnish grammar.