Finnish edit

Etymology edit

The illative plural of uupua (to get exhausted) with the interfix -ksi-.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

uuvuksiin

  1. to exhaustion (to the state of exhaustion)
    Juostuaan itsensä uuvuksiin poro oli susille helppo saalis.
    After running itself to exhaustion the reindeer was an easy prey for the wolves.

Inflection edit

→○ illative uuvuksiin
inessive uuvuksissa
○→ elative

Further reading edit