sokeuteen

Sokeuteen is the illative case form of the Finnish noun sokeus, meaning blindness. It denotes movement into blindness or the onset of blindness and is used in medical, clinical, and literary Finnish to describe progression toward vision loss or states of becoming blind.

In medical contexts, sokeuteen appears in phrases such as “johtaa sokeuteen” (to lead to blindness) and describes progression to blindness in conditions that can cause vision loss. It is used with diseases and injuries that can threaten sight, including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, cataract progression, age-related macular degeneration, optic neuritis, and severe trauma to the eye.

As a grammatical form, sokeuteen is the illative (into) case of sokeus and appears after verbs or expressions that convey direction or outcome. It is not an English term; in translations it is rendered as “to blindness” or “into blindness” depending on the context.

Culturally, sokeuteen can function as a metaphor in Finnish literature and discourse, describing ignorance, willful blindness, or moral failing in addition to its literal sense. The term is most commonly encountered in Finnish-language medical texts, academic writing, and literary works that address perception, vision, or metaphorical blindness rather than in everyday speech.