Isellä
Isellä is a Finnish inflected form of the noun isä, meaning father. It is the adessive singular form used to mark the possessor in the common Finnish possession construction Xlla on Y, which translates to “X has Y.” In this structure the possessor (X) is in the adessive case, while the possessed item (Y) appears in the nominative or partitive depending on the noun and the quantity.
- Adessive singular: isällä (on/at the father, or, in possession constructions, the father has)
- Plural possessors: isillä (on the fathers; the fathers have)
The object Y after on is typically in nominative for a definite singular item, or in partitive
- Isällä on auto. (The father has a car.)
- Isällä on kolme lasta. (The father has three children.)
- Isillä on autoja. (The fathers have cars.)
The form is not a standalone lexical word; it is a grammatical inflection used to indicate the