kuvituksiin

Kuvituksiin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun kuvitus, which refers to illustrations, pictorial representations, or images accompanying text. As a grammatical form, kuvituksiin signals movement into or reference to the group of illustrations, rather than a standalone lexical item.

The word kuvitus comes from the concept of imagining or depicting images to accompany written material. In publishing, art history, and cataloguing, kuvitus is used to describe the collection of images produced for a work, such as drawings, photographs, or diagrams. The illative plural kuvituksiin is formed by adding the plural illative suffix -iin to the stem kuvitus, yielding a form that appears in sentences where the illustrations are the destination or object of reference.

Usage notes:

- Kuvituksiin is most common in formal or technical Finnish, particularly in publishing, indexing, or critical writing.

- It functions as part of a larger noun phrase or as the target of a verb that requires an illative object, such as viitataan or lisätty (to refer to or to add to the illustrations).

Example sentences:

- Kuvituksiin viitataan luvussa 4. (Reference is made to the illustrations in chapter 4.)

- Uudessa painoksessa kuvituksiin on lisätty uusia kuvia. (In the new edition, new images have been added to the illustrations.)

See also:

- Kuvitus (illustration), Kuvitukset (the illustrations as a collection)

- Finnish grammar: illative case and plural forms