Keskipitkillä

Keskipitkillä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective keskipitkä, meaning “mid-length.” It is used to describe multiple items that share a medium length and is most often encountered in linguistic or descriptive grammar contexts. The form illustrates how Finnish adjectives agree with plural nouns in different cases, here shown in the adessive-like plural ending -llä/-illä in combination with keskipitkä.

In practice, keskipitkillä appears in phrases that refer to several objects that have a mid-length dimension. It is not a commonly used everyday phrase, but it serves as an example of Finnish inflection patterns for adjectives in plural forms. The basic idea is that keskipitkä (mid-length) can modify a plural noun, and when that noun is in a case that requires a plural ending, the word takes the form keskipitkillä or keskipitkillä, depending on the specific grammatical construction. This makes keskipitkillä a useful reference word for learners studying Finnish morphology and how adjectives decline to reflect number and case.

Related terms include keskipitkä itself (the base adjective meaning mid-length) and other degree-based descriptors such as pitkänsä (long) and lyhyt (short), which behave similarly in plural inflection. The study of keskipitkillä is primarily of interest to students of Finnish grammar, linguistics, and language description, rather than a term used widely in ordinary conversation.

Notes:

- Keskipitkillä is an inflected form, not a standalone lexical entry.

- Its usage depends on the noun it modifies and the grammatical case in which that noun appears.

- Example phrases are mainly found in grammar descriptions or linguistic examples rather than everyday speech.