sulamisiin

Sulamisiin is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the noun sulaminen, which means melting or thawing. Sulaminen refers to the process by which a solid becomes a liquid under heat, or more broadly to related processes of dissolution or softening. Sulamisiin represents the illative plural form, indicating movement toward or into melting processes. In practical terms, it translates roughly to “into melting processes” or “into the melting,” when used with verbs of direction or other illative constructions.

Formation and meaning: The base sulaminen takes the illative plural suffix -iin, giving sulamisiin. This suffix marks movement toward a destination or state in the illative case, and the plural form appears because it refers to multiple melting processes. The illative plural is relatively rare in ordinary prose, so sulamisiin is most often encountered in linguistic discussions, grammar examples, or highly technical texts.

Usage: Sulamisiin tends to occur in formal or specialized writing, especially when discussing phenomena related to melting across several processes or contexts. It may appear in phrases such as sulamisiin liittyvät ilmiöt, meaning “phenomena related to melting processes.” Outside of scholarly or technical contexts, the form is seldom used in everyday Finnish, where simpler expressions are preferred.

See also: sulaminen, illative case, Finnish grammar.