vakituiseen

Vakituiseen is a form of the Finnish adjective vakituinen, which means permanent, lasting, or stable. The word is used to describe something that is intended to last or exist for a long time, such as a permanent job, residence, or status. In Finnish, adjectives inflect for case and number, and vakituiseen is the illative singular form, used after verbs and prepositions that require the illative to indicate movement into or toward a permanent state or position.

Grammatical use and forms

As the illative singular of vakituinen, vakituiseen appears in constructions that express entering into a permanent condition. It commonly combines with nouns in the illative case, for example in phrases like vakituiseen työsuhteeseen (into a permanent employment relationship) or vakituiseen työhön (into a permanent job). The base adjective has other inflected forms such as vakituinen (nominative singular), vakituisen (genitive), and vakituista (partitive), and related plural forms exist for different cases.

Usage

Vakituiseen is frequent in formal, administrative, and employment-related language. It is used when contrasting temporary or fixed arrangements with lasting, official statuses. In everyday speech, Finnish speakers may use more common synonyms like pysyvä or pitkäaikainen, depending on context, but vakituinen and its illative vakituiseen are standard in bureaucratic and professional discourse.

Etymology

The word vakituinen derives from Finnish roots meaning fixed or stable, combined with a suffix that forms adjectives indicating a characteristic. Vakituiseen, as the illative form, reflects typical Finnish inflection patterns for adjectives ending in -inen.

See also

Finnish grammar, illative case, vakituinen, pysyvä, pitkäaikainen.