Espanjassa

Espanja is the name of the country Spain in Finnish. The word espanjassa is the inessive form of Espanja, meaning in Spain. In Finnish, the inessive case is used to indicate location inside a place, and it is formed by adding the suffix -ssa or -ssä to the place name. For the proper noun Espanja, the usual form is Espanjassa, with double s resulting from the suffix addition.

Espanjassa is used in sentences that describe being located somewhere within Spain or describing conditions inside the country. It commonly appears in travel writing, news, and everyday speech. The form is adopted when the emphasis is on location rather than movement toward the place. For example: Olen Espanjassa nyt (I am in Spain now). Espanjassa on paljon historiallisia kaupunkeja ja rannikolta löytyy sekä vuoristoa että lämmin ilmasto.

Related Finnish cases for geographic names include Espanjaan (illative: to Spain) and Espanjaksi (as Spain, in a predicate sense) or Espanjasta (elative: from Spain). These forms show how the base name changes to express different spatial relationships. The capitalization rule follows standard Finnish orthography: Espanja is capitalized as a proper noun, and Espanjassa uses lowercase in normal text only when not starting a sentence, though it remains a proper noun form.

See also: Espanja (the country), Finnish case system, inessive case in Finnish grammar.