Merissä

Merissä is Finnish for “in the seas.” It is the plural inessive form of the noun meri (sea) and is used to indicate location inside multiple seas or marine environments in general. In Finnish, the inessive case marks being inside or within something, and the plural form is used when referring to more than one sea.

The singular inessive is meressä, while the plural inessive is merissä. For example: Laivat liikkuivat merissä. (The ships were sailing in the seas.) Vesiolosuhteet voivat vaihdella merissä eri alueilla. (Water conditions can vary in the seas in different areas.) The distinction between meressä and merissä helps clarify whether the reference is to a single sea or to seas as a collective realm.

Use and nuance: merissä commonly appears in geographical, nautical, and marine biology contexts when discussing activities, phenomena, or ecosystems that span more than one sea. It can also appear in travel writing or poetry to evoke expansive marine imagery. While meressä focuses on a single sea, merissä broadens the scope to multiple sea areas or the sea environment in a general sense.

Related forms and terms include meri (sea), meret (the seas, plural nominative), and genitive or other cases such as meren. These forms enable precise expression of location, possession, and other relations involving sea-related topics.

See also: meri, meret, merensä, meren.