Pilvisellä

Pilvisellä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective pilvinen, meaning cloudy. It represents the adessive singular form used when the adjective accompanies a noun in a weather-related phrase, most commonly to describe a condition such as weather.

In practice, pilvisellä is not a separate lexical item but a inflected form of pilvinen that aligns with the noun it modifies in discourse about weather or atmosphere. The construction is typical in meteorological language, descriptive writing, and everyday speech when specifying the state of the weather.

Common usage occurs in phrases like pilvisellä säällä, which translates to “in cloudy weather.” The form signals location or context tied to the noun in the adessive case, emphasizing the condition of being cloudy rather than the noun itself as a standalone concept.

Examples:

- Pilvisellä säällä kannattaa varautua sadevaatteisiin. (In cloudy weather one should prepare for rain.)

- Pilvisellä säällä päivänvalo on usein himmeämpää. (In cloudy weather, daylight is often dimmer.)

Notes:

Pilvisellä serves as a morphological example of how Finnish adjectives inflect to agree with nouns in case and number. It highlights how weather descriptions are constructed, rather than functioning as an independent word with a separate semantic entry.

See also: Finnish grammar, Adessive case, Adjective declension, Weather vocabulary.