tutkimuskenttään

tutkimuskenttään is the illative form of tutkimuskenttä, a Finnish compound noun meaning "research field" or "field of study." The word combines tutkimus (research) and kenttä (field, area). In Finnish, illative forms indicate direction or destination, often translated as "into" or "to" in English. Therefore tutkimuskenttään signals movement toward or immersion in the research field, or reference to that domain as a focus of activity.

Usage in Finnish is common in academic, scientific, and policy contexts. It can be used literally, for example when talking about entering a physical research environment, and metaphorically, when discussing entering a particular domain of inquiry. It collocates with verbs of movement or focus, such as siirtyä tutkimuskenttään (to move into the research field) or suuntautua tutkimuskenttään (to direct toward the research field).

Related terms include tutkimuskenttä (the research field as a domain), tutkimusala (field of study), and tutkimusalue (research area). The illative form illustrates one of the Finnish cases used to express spatial or abstract direction. The term is common in higher education, science discourse, and research planning in Finland, reflecting how researchers frame their work as belonging to a specific field of inquiry.

Notes: The illative marks a destination or target, not possession. It is distinct from other case forms such as the inessive (in the research field) or the elative (out of the research field), which convey different relational meanings.