Pysyvämmillä

Pysyvämmillä is a Finnish morphological form of the adjective pysyvä, meaning more permanent or lasting. It represents the adessive plural form of the comparative adjective pysyvämpi, used to modify plural nouns. In practice, pysyvämmillä conveys a higher degree of permanence than a baseline described with pysyvä or pysyvämpi, and it is used with nouns in the adessive case.

Morphology and usage: The base adjective pysyvä means permanent or lasting. The comparative form is pysyvämpi (more permanent). When inflected to describe multiple nouns in the adessive case, the form becomes pysyvämmillä. The emergence of the double m in pysyvämmillä arises from combining the comparative suffix -mpi with the adessive plural ending -llä, yielding a phonologically natural spelling in standard Finnish.

Typical contexts: pysyvämmillä is used in descriptive or analytical writing to emphasize that certain conditions, solutions, or characteristics are comparatively more permanent than others. Examples include phrases like pysyvämmillä olosuhteilla (under more permanent conditions) or pysyvämmillä ratkaisuilla (with more permanent solutions). The form commonly appears in academic prose, reports, or studies dealing with longevity, stability, or durability.

Etymology and relation: The word is not a separate lexical entry but a standard inflectional form of pysyvä. It illustrates Finnish comparative morphology combined with case endings, and it reflects how adjectives scale in durability when describing plural referents.

See also: Finnish adjectives, comparative forms in Finnish, Finnish case inflections, adessive case.