Partisiipissa

Partisiipissa is a term from Finnish grammar that refers to the inessive form of the noun partisiippi, which means participle. The word literally means “in the participle” and is used when describing or referring to a form that is a participle.

In Finnish, the inessive case is formed with the suffix -ssa or -ssä, depending on vowel harmony. For the noun partisiippi, the standard inessive form is partisiipissa. The form illustrates how Finnish can inflect nouns to indicate location or state, even when discussing grammatical categories rather than concrete objects. Partisiipissa is thus a demonstrative form used in linguistic analysis, grammar descriptions, and language-learning texts.

Partisiippi itself denotes a non-finite verb form that has adjectival or participial properties. The inessive form partisiipissa is not a separate part of speech; rather, it is a case-inflected noun used to talk about participles. In practice, references to partisiipissa appear in explanations of how participles are categorized, described, or illustrated in sentences or grammar tables. The term helps writers and learners specify that a word is being considered in its participial form rather than as a base verb or another part of speech.

See also: partisiippi, Finnish grammar, inessive case, participle.