Määrällisessä

Määrällisessä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish adjective määrällinen, meaning quantitative or numerical. The term describes things related to quantity, measurement, or numerical data, and is commonly used in academic, statistical, and research contexts.

In Finnish grammar, määrällinen functions as a normal adjective that agrees with the noun it modifies in case, number, and definiteness. The form märällisessä typically appears when the noun it modifies is in the inessive case (in). For example, in a sentence like "määrällisessä tutkimuksessa" the phrase means "in a quantitative study." The related dash of terms includes kvantitatiivinen (a closely aligned, often borrowed term) and tilastollinen (statistical), which are used in similar contexts with subtle nuance.

Usage and nuances: määrällinen emphasizes numerical quantity and measurement, rather than qualitative aspects. It is often contrasted with laadullinen (qualitative) or kvantitatiivinen (quantitative) in formal Finnish, though in many contexts the terms overlap. In practice, määrällinen is common in Finnish scholarly writing when describing data, analyses, or methods that rely on counts, frequencies, or statistical figures.

See also: kvantitatiivinen, laadullinen, tilastotiede, mittaus.