Hipsissä

Hipsissä is a form that can appear in Finnish texts when the English plural noun hips is used and inflected with the Finnish inessive plural suffix -issä. It is not a native Finnish word, and it is most commonly encountered in bilingual or translated material rather than in standard Finnish prose. In everyday Finnish anatomy vocabulary, the hip region is referred to as lonkka, and the standard locative plural is lonkissa (in the hips). Therefore hipsissä is typically seen in contexts where English terminology is retained, such as subtitles, glossaries, or medical notes that quote English terms.

The form illustrates how Finnish handles loanwords: the English root hips is left intact, and the appropriate Finnish inflection is applied. Because it is not part of ordinary Finnish vocabulary, hipsissä is usually considered nonstandard in formal writing, though it may occur in field-specific jargon, captions, or quoted material.

Usage notes: In bilingual or quoted contexts, hipsissä can convey the intended meaning directly from English. In native Finnish sentences, speakers would prefer a Finnish construction such as lonkissa for “in the hips.” The choice between hipsissä and lonkissa can signal whether the text is aiming to preserve source terminology or to present a fully Finnish expression.

See also: Finnish grammar, inessive case, lonkka, lonkat, bilingual terminology.