Lehdessä

Lehdessä is the inessive form of the Finnish noun lehti, meaning newspaper, magazine, or sheet, and by extension an issue of a publication. It is used to indicate that something is located inside or contained within a newspaper or a specific issue. The term can refer to content that has appeared in a newspaper or to material published within a particular publication.

Etymology and form: Lehti originally meant a leaf or sheet and later came to denote newspapers and magazines. The inessive suffix -ssä marks the sense of “in.” The singular form is lehdessä, and the plural is lehdissä. To express ownership or origin related to a newspaper, other forms are used, such as lehden (of the newspaper) or lehdestä (from the newspaper).

Usage notes: In Finnish, location inside a publication is expressed with the inessive rather than a separate preposition. Examples include: Artikkeli on lehdessä. Lehdessä julkaistiin haastattelu. The phrase can also appear in more complex constructions referring to content within a given issue, such as “tämän viikon lehden sisällöstä” (about the contents of this week’s issue), though formulations vary with context.

See also: Lehti, lehdet, lehden sivut. Lehdessä is distinct from lehdestä (from the newspaper) and lehden (of the newspaper), which illustrate related but different semantic relations involving publications.