Pöydällä

Pöydällä is a Finnish locative form meaning “on the table.” It is the adessive singular form of the noun pöytä (table) and is used to indicate that something is located on the surface of a table.

In Finnish, locations are expressed through cases rather than prepositions. The adessive case, indicated by the suffix -llä after the noun stem, marks position on a surface. For pöytä, the adessive form becomes pöydällä, which involves a small consonant change in the stem and the addition of the -llä suffix.

Examples illustrate its use: “Kissa on pöydällä.” (The cat is on the table.) “Kirjat ovat pöydällä.” (The books are on the table.) The phrase answers questions of location, such as where something is, and it can be used with various nouns, including pronouns, e.g., “Se on pöydällä.”

Pöydällä is primarily a spatial expression but may appear in various everyday contexts where precise location on a surface is being described. It reflects Finnish’s system of cases to express location and relationship between objects, rather than relying on prepositions.