Erillä

Erillä is a Finnish noun form that functions as the plural adessive of erä, a word meaning batch, lot, or consignment. In practical terms, erä can refer to a batch of goods, a shipment, or a defined portion of items, as well as to a round or phase in other contexts such as hunting or production. The plural nominative erät is used when speaking about multiple batches in general, while erillä (the plural adessive) marks location or state related to those batches, typically translating roughly to “on the batches” or “with the batches” in English. The form appears most often in written, technical, or administrative Finnish, such as logistics, inventory, procurement, and batch-based reporting.

Etymologically, erillä derives from erä with the standard Finnish plural adessive ending -llä, a pattern that is common for several Finnish nouns. This grammatical form enables concise annotation of where items are located or how they are organized within a system that handles multiple batches. Because erällä is a specialized case form, it is more frequently encountered in formal documents, spreadsheets, and procedures related to handling multiple consignments rather than in everyday speech.

In usage, erillä is read as part of a broader set of terms related to batch handling and inventory control. It is important to distinguish it from the singular forms and other cases of erä, which would be used to refer to a single batch or to different grammatical roles. Overall, erillä serves as a precise, technical marker in contexts dealing with multiple consignments or batches.