mutkikkaisiin

Mutkikkaisiin is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective mutkikas, meaning twisted, winding, or intricate. It is the plural illative form, used with plural nouns to indicate direction toward something that is winding or intricate—literally “into the winding ones.” For example, mutkikkaisiin polkuihin means into the winding paths, and mutkikkaisiin muistoihin means into the intricate memories. The illative indicates movement toward or into the referenced objects.

In use, mutkikkaisiin typically appears in descriptive writing, travel prose, or poetry, where the writer wants to emphasize complexity or non-straightforwardness in landscapes, routes, or ideas. It can modify any plural noun in illative case, such as polut (paths), teitä (roads), muistot (memories), or tarinat (stories), depending on the context.

Etymology and form: mutkikkaisiin is formed from mutkikas through standard Finnish adjective inflection rules to agree with a plural noun in illative. The base mutkikas itself derives from mutka, meaning bend or twist, conveying the sense of something that is not straight or simple. This form is one of the ordinary, productive inflections of mutkikas and is encountered in both written and spoken Finnish.

See also: Finnish language, illative case, mutkikas, Finnish adjectives.