odotuksiin
Odotuksiin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun odotus, meaning into the expectations or to the expectations. The base odotus denotes anticipation or belief about something that is expected to happen. The illative plural odotuksiin is used when the expectations are being treated as a destination or reference point, often with verbs that govern the illative case such as vastata (to meet) or täyttyä (to be fulfilled).
In addition to its literal sense of future anticipation, odotus can refer to a social or collective
- Tulos vastasi odotuksiin. (The result met the expectations.)
- Odotuksiin nähden hankkeen tulokset olivat myönteisiä. (Compared to expectations, the project’s results were positive.)
- Odotus voi also be used with phrases like odotukset korkeiksi or alhaisiksi to describe the level
- odotus (singular), odotukset (plural nominative)
- odottaa (to expect), odotusarvo (expectation value, in statistics), odotusaika (waiting period)
- Derived from the verb odottaa with the abstract noun suffix -us; cognate forms exist in related
Overall, odotuksiin functions primarily as a case-marked form used to express the target or reference point