taikinaksi

Taikinaksi is the translative case form of the Finnish noun taikina, meaning "dough" or "batter". In Finnish grammar the translative case, marked by the suffix -ksi, indicates a change of state, transformation, or the role something becomes; taikinaksi therefore conveys "into dough" or "as dough".

The form is commonly used in culinary contexts to describe ingredients becoming dough, for example: "Jauhot ja vesi muuttuvat taikinaksi" (Flour and water turn into dough). It also appears in instructions and descriptions: "Vaivaa taikina tasaiseksi, kunnes se muuttuu kimmoisaksi taikinaksi" (Knead the dough until it becomes elastic dough). Beyond literal cooking uses, taikinaksi can be used metaphorically to describe a transformation into a soft, malleable, or uniform substance.

Morphologically, taikinaksi derives from the stem taikina + the translative suffix -ksi. The translative case is one of several Finnish cases used to express changes of state (others include essive and abessive forms with distinct meanings). As a common and productive grammatical form, taikinaksi is an example of how Finnish encodes resultative meaning directly in noun inflection.