Osittaisissa

Osittaisissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective osittainen, meaning partial or in part. It is used to modify plural nouns in the inessive case to indicate that only some parts or aspects are involved, rather than the whole.

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. The inessive plural suffix is -issa or -issä, depending on vowel harmony, so osittaisissa appears when the modified noun is plural and in the inessive. For example, osittaisissa tiloissa means “in partial spaces” and osittaisissa ratkaisuissa means “in partial solutions.”

Osittaisissa is commonly found in academic, technical, or descriptive writing to emphasize partial involvement or partiality of a subject matter. It contrasts with the base form osittainen (partial) and with the adverb osittaisesti (partially), which describes manner rather than a noun’s state.

Related forms include osittainen (partial) and osittaisesti (partially). The term demonstrates how Finnish uses gender-neutral adjectives that align with the number and case of the noun they describe, with inessive plural being one of the many inflectional possibilities.