tonttiin

Tonttiin is a grammatical form in Finnish. It is the illative singular form of the noun tontti, which means a plot of land or a lot. The illative case in Finnish marks movement into a place or toward the interior of a space, so tonttiin is used when describing actions directed into or toward the interior of a plot.

The base word tontti is borrowed from Swedish tomt, reflecting the concept of a defined parcel of land associated with property or dwelling. In practice, tonttiin is relatively uncommon in everyday speech, where location on or toward a plot is more often expressed with other cases or with prepositions such as tontille, which indicates destination to the plot. Tonttiin may appear in formal writing, legal descriptions, urban planning documents, or literary contexts where an explicit illative meaning is required.

Notes on usage and forms: Finnish has several locative cases, and the illative form tonttiin provides a precise way to express motion toward the interior of a plot. Learners should recognize tontti as the lemma and tonttiin as one of its illative inflected forms, produced by adding the illative suffix to the stem. The form can also appear in fixed phrases or specialized discourse.

See also: Finnish grammar, illative case, tontti, tomt.