kuvausmateriaaliin

Kuvausmateriaaliin is the illative form of the compound noun kuvausmateriaali in Finnish. The base term kuvausmateriaali combines kuvaus (description) and materiaali (material), and the illative suffix -in denotes movement toward or into something. In practice, kuvausmateriaaliin does not denote a separate concept on its own; it is the grammatical form used when something is directed toward or placed into descriptive material, such as documentation, captions, metadata, or other descriptive resources.

Kuvausmateriaali is commonly used in professional and technical contexts, including libraries, archives, museums, publishing workflows, and data management. The phrase appears in instructions or descriptions that involve adding, updating, or transferring information into descriptive material. For example, a workflow instruction might read: lisätietoja lisätään kuvausmateriaaliin, meaning that additional information is added to the descriptive material. The form illustrates how Finnish uses case endings to indicate the destination of an action rather than creating a separate semantic category.

Related forms include kuvausmateriaalin (genitive), kuvausmateriaalia (partitive), and other inflected forms corresponding to different grammatical cases. The concept of kuvausmateriaali itself refers to materials used to describe a subject, item, or dataset, such as textual descriptions, captions, or metadata collected for documentation or cataloging purposes. In most contexts, kuvausmateriaaliin is treated as a grammatical form rather than a standalone topic.