kuluttajihin

Kuluttajihin is a Finnish inflected form that can be described as a illative plural form associated with the noun kuluttaja (consumer). In standard Finnish, the illative plural of kuluttaja/kuluttajat is kuluttajiin, as in the sentence Lainsäädäntö kohdistuu kuluttajiin (“The legislation targets the consumers”). The form kuluttajihin is not part of the normative Finnish grammar taught in dictionaries and is generally considered nonstandard or dialectal. It may appear in colloquial speech, in regional varieties, or as a typographical or analytical error.

Morphology and usage context: kuluttaja combines the verb root kuluta (to consume) with a noun-forming suffix to yield “consumer.” When moving to the illative plural (indicating “into” or “to” the consumers, in a directional sense), standard formation attaches the suffix -iin after the stem, producing kuluttajiin. The sequence kuluttajihin would require a nonstandard adjustment of the suffix and is rarely, if ever, treated as correct in formal writing.

Practical guidance: For formal or widely understood Finnish, prefer kuluttajiin in illative plural constructions referring to a group of consumers. If you encounter kuluttajihin in texts, consider it a nonstandard variant or error, and standardize to kuluttajiin when clarity and correctness are required.

See also: kuluttaja, kuluttajat, illatiivi/illative case, Finnish noun inflection.