Kuivukkeessa

Kuivukkeessa is a Finnish term used to describe being in a dry condition or during a drought. The form is the inessive case of a stem connected with dryness, yielding the meaning "in dryness" or "in a state of drought." The exact spelling and usage are not common in standard Finnish and it is typically found in dialects, poetry, or descriptive prose to evoke dryness.

Etymology and formation: The suffix -essa marks location or state in Finnish, so kuivukkeessa literally translates as "in dryness." The root is semantically tied to kuiv- (dry) and related nouns such as kuivuus (drought). The word is considered regional or literary rather than a standard Finnish term.

Usage: In practice, the form is used to convey a state of aridity, often in environmental descriptions, agricultural contexts, or poetic imagery. It may appear in dialect dictionaries or regional corpora as an example of how Finnish can express a state through inessive morphology.

See also: Finnish language, Finnish dialects, inessive case, dryness, drought.