kuumaan

Kuumaan is the illative singular form of the Finnish adjective kuuma, meaning hot. In Finnish grammar, the illative case marks movement into or toward something, and adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case. Therefore kuumaan is used before a noun that is in the illative, as in kuumaan veteen, meaning into the hot water.

Usage and examples can illustrate both literal and figurative heat. Examples:

- Menin kuumaan veteen. (I went into the hot water.)

- Lisään kuumaa maitoa kahviin. (I add hot milk to the coffee.)

Morphology and related forms: kuuma is a native Finnish adjective that inflects for case and number. Common singular forms include kuuman (genitive), kuumaa (partitive), kuumassa (inessive), and kuumaan (illative). The forms align with the noun they describe, while the illative form kuumaan specifically signals movement into a hot object or environment.

Notes on usage: kuumaan is typically used with nouns that can be physically hot (for example veteen, kahviin) or in idiomatic phrases where heat or intensity is described as entering a state or place. Like other Finnish adjectives, kuuma and its inflected forms provide nuance about temperature and intensity, and they participate in the broader system of Finnish adjective declension.

See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, adjectives in Finnish.