puhtaaksi

Puhtaaksi is a Finnish translative form of the adjective puhdas, meaning “into a clean state” or “to become/be made clean.” It functions as a grammatical marker that describes a change of state related to cleanliness or purity. The form is commonly used with verbs that express making something clean or achieving cleanliness, and it can appear in both intransitive and transitive constructions.

In usage, puhtaaksi often appears with verbs such as tehdä or tulla. For example, lattia tuli puhtaaksi means “the floor became clean,” and velvan teki huoneen puhtaaksi means “the cleaner made the room clean.” The construction can convey a result or a completed state of cleanliness, rather than the action alone. Puhtaaksi can also occur in sentences where the subject causes the transformation, as in “pese ja tee tästä puhtaaksi” (wash and make this clean). The translative form emphasizes the change of state from dirty or impure to clean or pure.

Etymologically, puhtaaksi is formed from puhdas (“clean, pure”) plus the translative suffix -ksi, which marks a change of state or conversion into something. This distinguishes it from puhdas as an adjective or puhtaus (“cleanliness”) as a noun.

See also: puhdas, puhtaus, puhdistaa, siivous. Puhtaaksi is a specialized grammatical form rather than a standalone word with a separate meaning; its primary purpose is to express the result of cleaning or purification within a sentence.