ravintoon

Ravintoon is the illative case form of the Finnish noun ravinto, which means nutrition or nourishment. In Finnish grammar, the illative case marks movement toward or into a location, state, or condition. Ravintoon is formed by adding the illative suffix -oon to the stem ravinto.

The term functions mainly as a grammatical form rather than as a separate semantic concept. It is used when discussing how Finnish expresses direction into a state related to nourishment, such as in linguistic descriptions of case endings or in grammatical examples illustrating illative usage. Because it is a grammatical form, ravintoon does not appear as a common everyday noun in normal speech; instead, it tends to be encountered in dictionaries, language guides, or analyses of Finnish morphology.

In practical language use, ravintoon may appear in academic or technical contexts related to nutrition and health when the illative is used to describe movement toward nourishment in a metaphorical or analytical sense. It is part of the broader system of Finnish cases that express direction and state, and it demonstrates how nouns interact with suffixes to convey grammatical meaning.

See also: ravinto, illative case, Finnish grammar.