Niityillä

Niityillä is a Finnish locative form derived from the noun niitty, meaning meadow. It is the plural adessive form used to indicate location on or at meadows. In Finnish, the adessive case (suffix -lla/-llä) marks where something is located, and adding the plural ending -illä yields niityillä, meaning “on the meadows” or “at the meadows.” The form is commonly used in descriptions of rural landscapes, nature, or grazing.

In use, niityillä appears in sentences that describe actions or states occurring on meadows. Examples include: Lampaat laiduntavat niityillä (The sheep graze on the meadows) and Linnut laulavat niityillä (The birds sing on the meadows). The word functions as a location noun within a clause and does not stand alone as a full noun without its case ending.

Notes on form and context: niityllä would be the singular adessive form (“on the meadow”), while niityillä is the plural form (“on the meadows”). As with other Finnish case forms, niityillä is not a separate word with a fixed meaning beyond its locative function; it is a inflected form of niitty used to situate actions or phenomena spatially. The term is common in everyday Finnish, literature describing nature, and geographic descriptions.