sinisempään

Sinisempään is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective sininen, meaning “blue.” It is formed from the comparative sinisempi (more blue) and carries an illative suffix, yielding the illative singular sinisempään. In practice, sinisempään is used to describe something moving toward or described as a bluer shade, with the noun it governs in the illative case (toward a blue shade or into a bluer shade).

Usage and context

The form is most common in descriptive language about color, design, art, and nature. It answers questions such as “to what shade?” or “toward what color?” when the reference is a blue-dominated hue. Typical collocations include sävyyn and väriin, for example in phrases like sinisempään sävyyn (to a bluer shade) or sinisempään värivaihtoehtoon (to a bluer color option). The sense conveyed is comparative in intensity of blue relative to another color or shade.

Grammatical notes

Sinisempään is the illative singular form of the comparative adjective sinisempi. Other forms of the same adjective appear in related cases, such as sinisempi (nominative) or sinisempää (partitive). As with many Finnish adjectives, the exact ending changes to reflect the case and number of the noun it modifies.

See also

sininen, sinisempi, illatiivi (illative case), color terminology in Finnish.