määrääksiin

Määrääksiin is a form that appears in discussions of Finnish morphology, typically described as an illative plural inflection connected to words derived from or related to määrätä or määräys. In standard Finnish, the ordinary illative plural of määräys (decree, directive) is määräyksiin. The form määrääksiin is not common in modern usage and is generally regarded as nonstandard, archaic, or dialectal. It may be encountered in linguistic examples that illustrate how illative forms can be built from different stems with the -in plural ending.

Formation and sense in theory can be described as deriving from a stem such as määrääksi, with the illative plural suffix -in added to yield määrääksiin. This mirrors the broader Finnish pattern where illative plural marks movement into or toward a plural noun form. However, this exact construction is not productive in contemporary Finnish, and its presence is mostly of interest to language learners, grammars, or historical texts as an exceptional or instructional example rather than as a regular word.

Usage and considerations: Because määrääksiin is rare and not part of standard vocabulary, writers typically prefer määräyksiin to express “into decrees” in everyday or formal writing. If the form appears, it is often in linguistic commentary, glossaries, or as a cautionary illustration of inflectional variation rather than as an active word in modern Finnish.

See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, nominalization, determiner/decree-related vocabulary (määräys, määrätä).