Pitkällisiä

Pitkällisiä is the plural partitive form of the Finnish adjective pitkällinen, which means long-winded, tedious, or protracted. The adjective describes things that take longer than necessary or are elaborated in a manner that feels drawn out. The form pitkällisiä is used with plural nouns in the partitive case, for example pitkällisiä selityksiä (long-winded explanations) or pitkällisiä tarinoita (long-winded stories).

The word is formed from the root pitkä (long) with the suffix -llinen, a common way in Finnish to create adjectives that denote a quality. Typical inflected forms include pitkällinen in singular and pitkällisiä in plural contexts; the word follows standard Finnish adjective declension patterns for cases and numbers. While pitkällinen frequently carries a mildly negative or critical tone, it can also be used descriptively in linguistic or stylistic analysis without an evaluative stance.

In usage, pitkällinen often appears in journalism, literature, and everyday criticism when a speaker, text, or argument is perceived as unnecessarily extended. It is commonly contrasted with more concise expressions such as tiivis or ytimekäs, which denote brevity and directness. As with many evaluative adjectives, nuance depends on context and intonation, and the term may reflect the speaker’s or writer’s perspective on how information is communicated.