Murteellisissa

Murteellisissa is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the inessive plural of the adjective murteellinen, meaning dialectal or relating to dialects. It is used to describe features, words, or forms that belong to Finnish dialects rather than to Standard Finnish.

In Finnish morphology, adjectives decline for number and case. The nominative plural is murteelliset, the genitive plural murteellisten, and the inessive plural murteellisissa. The phrase murteellisissa muodoissa, for example, means “in dialectal forms.” This inflected form is common in linguistic and descriptive texts dealing with regional variation across Finland.

Usage and significance: Murteellisuus refers broadly to the quality of being dialectal, while murteellisissa is a specific inflected form used when the predicate or noun phrase is in the inessive plural. The term is descriptive and neutral, frequently appearing in studies of regional speech, vocabulary, phonology, and syntax. It helps distinguish features that are characteristic of particular dialects from those of Standard Finnish, illustrating the diversity of language use within the country.

See also: murre (dialect) and murteet (dialects).