sisään

Finnish

Illative singular form of sisä-.

sisään (comparative sisempään, superlative sisimpään)

into, in, inside, inwards (into a state of being in or inside something)
Tule sisään!
Come on in!

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.

Declension of sisä-

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	–	–

compounds

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