Datasetsissä

Datasetsissä is a Finnish inflected form used to express “in the datasets” in contexts such as research, data science, and data management. It illustrates how Finnish handles location in the plural when a data-related term borrowed from English is involved.

In Finnish, the word dataset is a loanword. The plural can be formed in two main ways: the native Finnish plural datasetit, or the preserved English plural datasets. When turning a plural into the inessive case (the “in” case) in Finnish, the typical suffix is -issä/-issä, so both variants yield forms like datasetsissä and datasetteissä.

The choice between datasetsissä and datasetteissä reflects broader style preferences. Some writers favor keeping the English plural intact and attaching the Finnish inessive ending, producing datasetsissä. Others prefer using the Finnish plural datasetit and then adding the corresponding inessive plural ending to create datasetteissä. In practice, both forms appear in Finnish technical writing, with the latter often preferred in text that aims to be fully Finnish-leaning, and the former more common in bilingual or international contexts.

Beyond morphology, datasetsissä also highlights the flexibility of Finnish when integrating loanwords into technical discourse. It shows how case systems interact with borrowed plurals and how authors choose forms to balance readability, consistency, and audience. For learners, recognizing datasetsissä as a valid inessive plural helps in interpreting phrases that refer to content located within multiple data collections.