Harvinaisina

Harvinaisina is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective harvinainen, meaning rare or unusual. In linguistic terms, harvinaisina is the plural essive form, used to describe a temporary state or role of multiple subjects. In English, it can be understood roughly as “as rare ones” or “in rare form.”

The form is produced by applying the essive plural ending to the stem of harvinainen. It is typically found in more formal or literary Finnish, rather than in everyday spoken language, and it often appears in noun phrases where a plural subject is described as being in a rare or exceptional condition.

Usage and examples:

- Näitä ilmiöitä voidaan pitää harvinaisina esimerkkeinä. (These phenomena can be regarded as rare examples.)

- Tutkimuksessa kerätyt havainnot olivat harvinaisina tapauksina, joita puitiin tarkemmin. (The observations collected in the study were rare cases, discussed in more detail.)

Harvinaisina is therefore primarily a grammatical inflection rather than a standalone lexical entry. It is used to convey that multiple entities share a rare characteristic at a given moment or in a specific context. In common Finnish, speakers might instead use more straightforward phrasing, such as “harvinaisia tapoja” or “harvinaisia tapauksia,” depending on the sentence structure and emphasis.