Puhtaammalla
Puhtaammalla is the adessive singular form of the Finnish comparative adjective puhtaampi, meaning “cleaner” or “more clean.” It is used to describe a noun in the adessive case in situations that express relative cleanliness, often in comparisons or spatial descriptions involving cleanliness of a surface or location. The form arises from combining the comparative suffix -mpi with the locative/adessive suffix -lla, and it typically involves consonant duplication, yielding puhtaammalla.
- Puhtaammalla describes a noun in the adessive case, for example when saying “on a cleaner surface”
- It is used in contexts where two or more items are being compared in terms of cleanliness,
- It is part of a broader family of forms: puhtaampi (comparative) and puhtain (superlative), with corresponding
- Se on puhtaammalla pöydällä. (It is on a cleaner table.)
- Käytä puhtaammalla pinnalla. (Use it on a cleaner surface.)
- puhdas (clean), puhtaampi (comparative), puhtain (superlative)
- other case forms of puhtaampi follow Finnish adjective inflection patterns
Puhtaammalla is a specialized grammatical form used in Finnish to express relative cleanliness with a noun