lomaksi

Lomaksi is a Finnish noun form used in the translative case to express a change of state or designation into a holiday. It is derived from the noun loma, meaning holiday or vacation, and translates roughly as "into a holiday" or "as a holiday."

In usage, lomaksi appears in sentences where something is described as being turned into a holiday or treated as a holiday for a period. It is one of the Finnish translative forms, a suffix -ksi that signals becoming or transformation. The construction is part of standard Finnish morphology and is commonly encountered in written language, travel writing, and metaphorical expressions where an ordinary day or event is reframed as a break.

Examples are typically straightforward: Päivä muuttui lomaksi. This can be translated as "The day turned into a holiday." More generally, lomaksi highlights a deliberate shift in status or function, rather than a mere temporal designation.

Related forms include lomana, the essive form meaning "as a holiday" in the sense of a role or capacity, whereas lomaksi emphasizes transformation into that state. The translative case, including lomaksi, is one of several grammatical cases in Finnish that express relationships such as location, direction, and state changes.

See also: Finnish translative case, Finnish grammar, loma.