Pysyvillä

Pysyvillä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective pysyvä, which means permanent or lasting. It functions as an adjective form that appears with plural nouns in a specific grammatical case. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in both number and case, so pysyvä can take many different endings depending on the syntactic role of the noun phrase. Pysyvillä represents one such ending, and its exact meaning depends on the grammatical case it expresses.

Grammatical background and usage: The form pysyvillä arises from applying the standard pattern of adjective inflection to the stem pysyvä and attaching plural and case endings. The ending communicates a particular relationship between the adjective and the noun it modifies—for example, a sense related to location, accompaniment, or state within the surrounding sentence. Because Finnish case endings encode these relations, pysyvillä does not have a fixed standalone meaning; its nuance shifts with the noun it accompanies and the case used.

Etymology and related forms: The word stems from pysyvä, with related forms such as pysyvyys (the noun meaning permanence) and other inflected variants used for different numbers and cases. These related forms help describe the broader concept of permanence in Finnish.

Notes: Pysyvillä is not a separate lexical item with a fixed standalone definition; it is a grammatical form that appears within larger noun phrases. Its exact interpretation depends on the noun it modifies and the grammatical case required by the sentence.

See also: Finnish grammar, Adjective inflection, Pysyvä, Pysyvyys.