Argumenteissa

Argumenteissa is the Finnish plural inessive form of the noun argumentti, meaning "in the arguments" or "within the arguments." It combines the plural stem of the loanword argumentti with the inessive case ending -ssa/-ssä (plural -issa/-issä), a locative case used to indicate being inside or within something.

Usage and meaning

Argumenteissa is used in contexts where multiple arguments are discussed or evaluated, for example in debates, academic writing, legal reasoning and everyday conversation. It can refer to points made in support of a claim, premises in a logical discussion, or parameter values passed to functions in programming contexts when speaking Finnish (e.g., "funktiossa argumenteissa" — in the function’s arguments).

Etymology and morphology

Argumentti is a borrowing ultimately from Latin argumentum, transmitted through other European languages. The form argumenteissa shows typical Finnish case and plural morphology: a plural stem combined with the inessive suffix to express location or inclusion.

Related forms

Singular inessive: argumentissa (in the argument); plural elative: argumenteista (out of/from the arguments); plural illative: argumenteihin (into the arguments). Argumenteissa is common in both formal and informal Finnish when discussing multiple points or components that are considered as a group.