Lievemmällä

Lievemmällä is a Finnish adjective form used to express that something is at a milder or less severe level compared to a reference point. It is commonly found in phrases describing states, conditions or intensities, such as health symptoms, weather, or policy measures. The form indicates location or state rather than the object itself, for example in sentences like “tilanne on lievemmällä tasolla” (the situation is at a milder level) or “oireet ovat lievemmällä” (the symptoms are milder).

Grammatically, lievemmällä is the adessive form of the comparative adjective lievempi, which comes from the adjective lievä meaning mild or gentle. In Finnish, the adessive case is used to denote being on or at a surface or state, so lievemmällä literally means “on a milder state.” Finnish adjectives have several grammatical forms, and lievemmällä is one of the common ways to express comparative degrees in a state-oriented sense. The construction is widely understood in everyday language and in formal writing.

Contexts and usage: lievemmällä is often used in public health, meteorology, economics, and policy discourse to compare current conditions with past ones. For example, health communications might note that a disease burden is “lievemmällä tasolla” than during a peak period, while weather reports may describe conditions as “lievemmällä tasolla” after a storm. It is not tied to a specific domain and can appear wherever a milder level is being described.

Related terms include lievä (mild) and lievempi (milder). The form lievemmällä is part of a broader set of inflected expressions that Finnish uses to convey graduated states and comparisons.