multimodaaliin

Multimodaaliin is the illative singular form of the Finnish adjective multimodaali, meaning multimodal. In Finnish, adjectives inflect for case and number, so multimodaaliin is used when the noun it modifies is in the illative, the case used for direction toward or into something. A common construction is multimodaaliin viestintään liittyvät tutkimukset, “studies related to multimodal communication,” illustrating how the form functions in attributive phrases.

Beyond language, the concept of multimodality covers contexts in which information is conveyed or analyzed through multiple modalities, such as text, speech, images, video, gestures, and tactile data. In media, education, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence, multimodal approaches synthesize inputs from several modalities to improve communication, comprehension, or performance. In transport and logistics, multimodal (or intermodal) transport involves using more than one mode of transportation for a single shipment.

Finnish usage notes: multimodaaliin is a specific inflected form tied to grammar; the related noun is multimodaalisuus (multimodality); the base adjective is multimodaali (multimodal). The form appears in academic and technical writing when describing multimodal phenomena in illative contexts. See also multimodal, multimodality, and Finnish grammar notes on adjective inflection.