Kuivaimissa

Kuivaimissa is a Finnish grammatical form and not a standalone concept. It is the inessive plural form of the noun kuivain, which means dryer or drying device. The inessive case marks location “in” or “inside,” and the plural indicates more than one drying device. Therefore kuivaimissa translates roughly to “in the dryers” or “inside the drying machines.” The corresponding singular forms are kuivain (nominative), kuivaimessa (in the dryer), and illative plural kuivaimiin (into the dryers).

Kuivain as a word denotes any device used to remove moisture from materials. In everyday Finnish, it most often refers to clothes dryers in homes or laundries, but it can also describe industrial or kitchen drying equipment, food dehydrators, or other moisture-removal apparatus. The form kuivaimissa is used when speaking about the location of items relative to several such devices, for example in a laundry room or a drying section of a facility.

Usage considerations: kuivaimissa is a standard grammatical form and does not imply a specialized technical term. It appears in descriptive sentences about where items are located or stored in relation to multiple drying machines. Its illative form, kuivaimiin, would indicate movement “into the dryers,” while the nominative plural kuivaimet refers to “the dryers” as a stand-alone group.

Example: Pyykit ovat kuivaimissa. (The clothes are in the dryers.)