Digitaalisella

Digitaalisella is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective digitaalinen, meaning digital. In everyday Finnish, digitaalisella is the adessive singular form used to indicate location, context, or manner with the noun it modifies. For example, digitaalisella alustalla means on a digital platform, and digitaalisella tavalla means in a digital manner. The form is common in technical, business, media, and academic writing when the subject relates to digital technology or digital environments.

Usage and examples

Digitaalisella is typically attached to nouns that describe places, methods, or conditions in a digital sense. Examples include:

- digitaalisella alustalla (on a digital platform)

- digitaalisella aikakaudella (in the digital era)

- digitaalisella muotoilulla (with digital design)

- digitaalisella tiedolla (with digital data)

The adessive form emphasizes that the context or action occurs within digital technology rather than analog or non-digital environments.

Relation to other forms

The adjective digitaalinen has multiple inflected forms to match case and number. Digitaalisella is just one of these forms, corresponding to singular, inessive/adessive-style usage where the noun it modifies is in contexts like location, means, or mode. The term is widely understood in Finnish-language discussions of technology, information society, and related fields.

Etymology and meaning

Digitaalisella derives from digitaalinen, itself borrowed from the broader concept of digital, ultimately linked to Latin roots related to digits or fingers. In Finnish, the term commonly conveys digital technology, electronic media, and digitized processes, with digitaalisella specifically marking a digital context or setting in sentence syntax.