Kivessä

Kivessä is Finnish for “in the stone.” It is the inessive singular form of the noun kivi (stone, rock) and denotes a location inside something made of stone or within the stone material itself. In Finnish grammar the inessive case expresses “in/inside,” and -ssä is its standard suffix.

Usage and contexts

Kivessä is commonly found in scientific and descriptive Finnish, especially in geology, mineralogy, archaeology, and petrology, where it describes features located within a rock, such as mineral inclusions, cavities, or fossils embedded in stone. In everyday language, speakers more often use paraphrase like kiven sisällä (“inside the stone”) rather than kivessä, but kivessä appears in technical texts or phrases such as kivessä oleva mineraali (mineral inside the stone) or kivessä oleva rakenne (structure within the stone).

Examples

- Kivessä on halkeama. (There is a crack in the stone.)

- Näyte tutkittiin kivessä olevien mineraalien perusteella. (The sample was studied based on the minerals inside the stone.)

- Olennainen rakenne on kivessä, jossa on pieni kuilu. (The significant feature is inside the stone, where there is a small cavity.)

Related forms

Kivi is declined across Finnish cases. The genitive singular is kiven, the illative is kiveen, the elative is kivestä, and the adessive is kivellä. These forms help express different spatial relationships with stones or rocky materials.

See also

Finnish case system, kiven sisällä (inside the stone), mineral inclusions, geology terminology.