sovittuun

Sovittuun is a grammatical form in Finnish derived from the verb sopia, meaning to agree. It is the illative form of the participial adjective sovittu, which translates roughly as “agreed.” The form is used to refer to something that has been agreed upon and to indicate direction toward or reference to that agreed element in various contexts, especially in formal language.

In practice, sovittuun is most often seen in phrases that connect the agreed item with a noun in the illative case. Examples include sovittuun aikaan (to the agreed time), sovittuun hintaan (at the agreed price), and sovittuun sopimukseen (into the agreed contract). It serves as a modifier that ties the noun to the concept of an agreement that has already been reached. The construction is common in legal, contractual, and scheduling language, where precision about what has been agreed is important.

Morphology and usage notes: sovittuun is the illative singular form derived from sovittu. It does not carry an independent lexical meaning on its own; its value comes from the combination of the base meaning “agreed” and the illative suffix, which marks direction toward or reference to the specified item. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for simpler expressions, such as sovittu or other phrasing, but sovittuun remains standard in formal Finnish.

See also: sovittu, sopimus, illatiivi.