Osoitteellista

Osoitteellista is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective osoitteellinen, which means addressable or related to addresses. The term is used in both linguistic and technical contexts to describe things that pertain to addresses, such as memory addresses or web/communications addresses. In Finnish grammar, osoitteellista functions as an inflected form of the adjective when it modifies a mass noun or a noun used in a partitive construction (for example, osoitteellista tietoa or osoitteellista muistia).

Etymology and form: The adjective osoitteellinen is built from the noun osoite (address) plus the common adjective suffix -ellinen, giving a meaning along the lines of “address-related” or “address-based.” The form osoitteellista represents the partitive singular used with suitable nouns. This form is regular within Finnish adjective declension patterns and can be found in statistical, technical, and descriptive prose.

Usage in practice: In everyday Finnish, osoitteellinen is most often encountered in technical domains. It commonly appears in discussions of computing and information technology, where it describes concepts that can be identified or accessed by an address, such as osoitteellista muistia (addressable memory) or osoitteellisia resursseja (addressable resources). It can also appear in data structures, networking, and systems design to characterize address-based addressing or addressing schemes. Outside of technical writing, the term is less frequent, and its precise meaning is guided by the surrounding noun.

See also: osoite, osoitteellinen, addressable.