Pistemäisissä

Pistemäisissä is a Finnish adjective form that means dotted or stippled. It is the inessive plural form of the base adjective pistemäinen, which describes textures or patterns composed of points or dots. The word is used to characterize surfaces, designs, or markings that appear made up of discrete spots rather than uniform color.

Morphology and usage are typical of Finnish -inen adjectives. The stem pistemä- combines with the suffix -inen to form pistemäinen (dotted). Like other adjectives of this class, pistemäinen can be inflected for number and case. In plural forms, the inessive case yields pistemäisissä, used to indicate “in the dotted ones” or, more broadly, “in dotted patterns.” Other plural forms include pistemäiset (nominative plural), pistemäisiä (partitive plural), pistemäisistä (elative plural), pistemäisillä (adessive plural), and pistemäisille (allative plural), depending on grammatical role in a sentence.

In practice, pistemäisissä appears most often when describing plural nouns in contexts such as art, textile design, printing, or microscopy, where patterns are described as dotted or stippled. For example: “Kuviossa esiintyy pistemäisiä pisteitä” (The pattern contains dotted points) or “Pinnan pistemäisissä alueissa havaittiin tiheydeltään eritasoisia pisteitä” (In the dotted regions of the surface, dots of varying density were observed). The term is descriptive rather than technical, and its usage relies on clear agreement with the noun it modifies.

See also pistemäinen; piste (dot, point).

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