Lyhyemmillä

Lyhyemmillä is a Finnish grammatical form that occurs as the plural adessive of the comparative adjective lyhyempi, which in turn is derived from lyhyt meaning short. The term is used when referring to multiple items in a context of location or manner, translating roughly to “on the shorter ones” or “with the shorter ones.”

In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. The base adjective lyhyt forms a comparative lyhyempi. To indicate plural and a surrounding sense of location or means, the adessive plural ending -illä is added, producing lyhyemmillä. The corresponding singular forms are lyhyempi (nominative singular) and lyhyemmällä (adessive singular).

Lyhyemmillä is commonly used in contexts describing groups, routes, schedules, or timeframes. For example:

- Lyhyemmillä aikatauluilla projekti valmistuu nopeammin. (With shorter schedules, the project finishes faster.)

- Lyhyemmillä reiteillä matka kestää vähemmän aikaa. (On shorter routes, the journey takes less time.)

- Lyhyemmillä tavoitteilla yritys etenee nopeasti. (With shorter objectives, the company moves forward quickly.)

Notes:

- Lyhyemmillä is not a standalone noun; it is an inflected adjective form functioning inside a sentence to modify a plural noun in the adessive case.

- The form reflects both number (plural) and case (adessive), and it should agree with the noun it describes in both aspects.

- In writing, capitalization of lyhyemmillä occurs only if it begins a sentence or is part of a title.