päivämäriin

Päivämääriin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun päivämäärä, meaning calendar date. In Finnish, the illative case marks movement toward or into something; in the plural, päivämääriin corresponds to “to the dates” or “into the dates.”

Usage of päivämääriin tends to occur in contexts where actions or references are directed toward multiple dates or when dates are treated as a domain or context. It is relatively rare in everyday speech and more common in formal writing, such as scheduling documentation, data schemas, or phrases that frame information in relation to dates. A typical example is päivämääriin liittyvät tiedot, meaning “the information relating to the dates.”

Notes on meaning and alternatives: because Finnish relies on case inflection, other forms may be used to express related ideas. For example, päivämäärien indicates possession or relation (the dates’), and päivämääristä can express “about the dates.” The illative plural päivätämäriin thus serves a specific, context-dependent role and is mainly a grammatical inflection rather than a standalone concept. In practice, it appears most often in written texts dealing with scheduling, records, or data organized by dates.