sisään - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Illative singular form of sisä-.
sisään (comparative sisempään, superlative sisimpään)
- into, in, inside, inwards (into a state of being in or inside something)
- vuoren sisään kaivettu tunneli ― a tunnel dug inside a mountain
Can be used postpositionally (+ genitive) and/or with a possessive suffix (when the complement is a personal pronoun). See the usage examples.
| noun case | singular | plural | adverbial form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sisä- | – | superessive | – | – |
| genitive | – | – | delative | – | – |
| partitive | – | – | sublative | – | – |
| accusative | – | – | lative | – | – |
| inessive | sisässä | – | temporal | – | – |
| elative | sisästä | – | causative | – | – |
| illative | sisään | – | multiplicative | – | – |
| adessive | sisällä | – | distributive | – | – |
| ablative | sisältä | – | temp. dist. | – | – |
| allative | sisälle | – | prolative | – | – |
| essive | – | – | situative | sisäkkäin | – |
| translative | – | – | oppositive | sisätysten | – |
| abessive | – | – | |||
| instructive | – | – | |||
| comitative | – | – | |||
- “sisään”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03