Lopullisilla

Lopullisilla is the adessive plural form of the Finnish adjective lopullinen, meaning final or definitive. It is used to describe plural nouns in the adessive case, indicating the means, context, or circumstance related to something that is final. In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, so lopullisilla appears when the noun is plural and in the adessive.

Form and usage

The base form lopullinen becomes lopulliset in the plural nominative, and in the adessive plural it becomes lopullisilla. This form commonly appears in legal, administrative, or evaluative contexts where one speaks of final decisions, final methods, or final expressions, among other possibilities. For example: lopullisilla päätöksillä (“with/through final decisions”), lopullisilla tavoilla (“in final ways”), lopullisilla sanoilla (“with final words”). The meaning shifts slightly with the case, but the core sense remains: something regarded as final or definitive.

Notes

Lopullisilla does not stand alone as a noun; it is an adjective form that requires a noun in the same phrase. The concept is frequently encountered in written Finnish when discussing stages, outcomes, or conclusions that are intended to be final and conclusive.

See also

Lopullinen, Finnish adjectives, Finnish grammar—adessive case and adjective agreement.