kvartaaleihin

Kvartaali is a Finnish term meaning a quarter, typically a three-month period used in calendar and financial contexts. The illative plural form kvartaaleihin means “into the quarters” or “to the quarters,” and is used when describing division, allocation, or movement toward multiple quarters. The word is a loanword from Swedish kvartal, which in turn derives from the English word quarter. Kvartaalit are commonly used in financial reporting, budgeting, and statistics to organize data by quarter.

In practice, kvartaaleihin appears in expressions such as: “Tulos on jaettu kvartaaleihin” (The result has been divided into quarters) and “Tulokset verrataan kvartaaleihin perustuvan raportoinnin mukaan” (The results are compared according to quarter-based reporting). The illative plural form indicates direction or movement into the set of quarters or into data analyzed across quarters.

Context and usage notes: kvartaali is most widely used in finance, accounting, and statistical reporting. In urban planning or everyday Finnish, the concept of a city quarter is more often referred to with kortteli or alue, rather than kvartaali; kvartaali appears mainly in historical, bilingual, or formal texts that borrow terminology from Swedish or English.

Etymology and related terms: kvartaali comes from Swedish kvartal, itself from English quarter. Related Finnish terms include kvartaaleja (nominative plural) and kvartaaleille (illative/plural variants in other grammatical forms), as well as kortteli for a city block in common Finnish.