taikinoihin

Taikinoihin is the illative plural form of the Finnish noun taikina, meaning dough. In Finnish, illative is a case used to indicate direction toward something or movement into it. Taikinoihin is therefore used when referring to moving ingredients into or adding to multiple doughs or to more than one batch of dough.

In practical terms, taikinoihin appears in recipes or instructions that discuss several doughs. For example, one might say “Lisää sokeria taikoihin” or more commonly “Lisää sokeria taikinoihin” to mean “Add sugar to the doughs.” Another example could be “Kaada maito taikinoihin,” meaning “Pour the milk into the doughs.” By contrast, singular references to the dough use taikinaan (into the dough).

Formation and grammar: taikina is the base noun meaning dough. Its nominative plural is taikinat. The illative plural form taikinoihin is created by combining the plural stem with the illative plural suffix. This form specifically marks direction toward multiple dough portions, as opposed to taikinaan, which would refer to a single dough.

Usage notes: taikinoihin is relatively less common in everyday cooking than taikinaan, especially in casual speech. It appears in contexts that discuss more than one dough batch, such as professional baking, multilingual recipes, or instructional text that distinguishes between several doughs or doughs prepared at once.

See also: taikina; Finnish grammar; illative case; list of Finnish inflection forms.