Merellisissä

Merellisissä is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective merellinen. The form signals a location or state related to the sea or marine environments and is used to describe plural nouns in the inessive case. In English this can be read as “in sea-related” or “in marine environments.” Typical examples include merellisissä vesissä (in marine waters), merellisissä oloissa (in marine conditions), or merellisissä maissa (in maritime countries).

The base merellinen stems from meri, meaning sea, with the suffix -ellinen creating the meaning “characterized by” or “related to.” In contemporary Finnish, merellinen is most common in technical, ecological, geographic, and nautical contexts to denote aspects connected to the sea. It can also appear in literary style to convey a sense of vastness or sea-like quality, though such figurative use is less common and often more stylistically marked.

Grammatically, merellisissä is one of several inflected forms of merellinen. It contrasts with merellisiä (nominative plural) and merellistä (genitive singular or partitive forms, depending on the sentence). Its proper usage depends on number, case, and the noun it modifies. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for simpler phrases like “merellisissä vesissä” or substitute with more general terms such as “merelle liittyvät” depending on the nuance sought.

In sum, merellisissä is a grammatical form used to describe plural, sea-related contexts in Finnish, primarily within descriptive or technical discourse about marine environments, geography, or nautical topics.