Merkityksellisissä

Merkityksellisissä is an inflected Finnish adjective form, specifically the inessive plural of merkityksellinen, meaning meaningful or significant. It is used to describe plural nouns in the inessive case, indicating “in meaningful contexts,” “in significant aspects,” or similar senses. The base form merkityksellinen comes from the noun merkitys, meaning meaning or significance, with the suffix -llinen creating an adjective, and the ending -issä showing plural inessive.

In practice, merkityksellisissä occurs in academic and analytical language to discuss phenomena that carry importance within a given domain. It often appears with nouns such as konteksteissa (contexts), tapauksissa (cases), ilmiöissä (phenomena), or yhteyksissä (connections). For example: Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan merkityksellisissä konteksteissa esiintyviä ilmiöitä. This translates roughly to “the study examines phenomena that occur in meaningful contexts.” The adjective contrasts with merkityksetön, meaning meaningless, and with other evaluative terms such as tärkeä or oleellinen, depending on nuance.

Grammatical notes: as a descriptive adjective, merkityksellinen agrees with its noun in number and case; merkitykselliset (nominative plural), merkityksellisiä (partitive plural), merkityksellisissä (inessive plural), and so on. The form merkityksellisissä does not denote a standalone concept; rather, it functions as a normal descriptive modifier within a sentence.

See also: merkityksellinen, merkitys, konteksti, tutkimus, kielioppi.