sprintteiksi

Sprintteiksi is a Finnish plural translative form of the word sprintti. Sprintti is a loanword from English and has several common meanings in Finnish: in athletics, a sprint refers to a short-distance running race; in software and project management, a sprint is a fixed, time-boxed period during which a set amount of work is completed. The translative plural form sprintteiksi is used when describing a change of state that involves multiple sprints, roughly meaning “into sprints” or “as sprints.”

In grammar, sprintteiksi follows the typical Finnish pattern for forming translative plurals from base words ending in -ti. The form is used after verbs that express a transformation or localization into the new state, for example muuttaa sprintteiksi (to turn into sprints) or jakaa tehtävät sprintteiksi (to divide tasks into sprints). Because it denotes a collective transformation into several iterations, the translative plural is more common in planning or instructional contexts than in everyday speech.

Usage context varies by domain. In agile/project management discourse, sprintteiksi may appear in formal planning documents or methodological discussions to describe organizing work into multiple iterations. In sports contexts, speakers more often refer to sprinttejä (partitive plural) or sprintteihin (illative plural) when discussing entering or engaging in sprint events, rather than using sprintteiksi.

See also: sprintti, sprintti in agile methodology, sprint in athletics.