Informatiivisissa

Informatiivisissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective informatiivinen, meaning informative. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify in number and case, so informatiivisissa is used before a plural noun in the inessive case. Examples include informatiivisissa teksteissä (in informative texts) and informatiivisissa yhteyksissä (in informative contexts). The form signals location or context: “in the informative ones” or “in informative contexts.”

Usage and function

Informatiivisissa appears in written Finnish, particularly in academic, journalistic, and analytical prose, when discussing materials, situations, or settings that have an informative character. It is not a standalone noun; it accompanies a plural noun in the inessive case and agrees with it in number and case.

Etymology and inflection

Informatiivinen is a loanword meaning informative, derived from the Latin informativus and adopted into Finnish, likely through other European languages such as Swedish or English. The inessive plural form informatiivisissa follows regular inflection patterns for -inen adjectives in Finnish, combining the stem informatiivis- with the inessive plural ending -issa/-issä.

Related forms

Related forms of the same adjective include informatiivinen (singular nominative), informatiiviset (plural nominative), and forms in other cases such as informatiivisesta (inessive singular). The adverbial form is informatiivisesti.

See also

Finnish grammar on adjectives, inessive case, and loanwords in Finnish.