Selkeämpinä

Selkeämpinä is a Finnish morphological form built from the adjective selkeä, meaning clear. It is used to express that something is more clearly or more distinctly in a comparative sense, typically when referring to multiple items or states. The form is created by adding the comparative suffix -mpä- to the stem selke-, producing selkeämpä-, and then attaching the essive plural ending -nä, yielding selkeämpinä.

In usage, selkeämpinä appears mainly in written Finnish, particularly in formal, analytical, or literary contexts where a comparison involves several elements described as being in a more clear state. It is less common in everyday speech, where speakers more often use the adverb selkeästi or the adjective in its standard comparative form, such as selkeämpi, depending on the syntactic construction.

The word is closely related to related forms such as selkeä, selkeämpi and selkeästi. Selkeämpinä importantly represents a rarer, more stylistically marked option for expressing that a group or set of things is perceived as more clearly defined or understood than another reference point.

Notes on usage and style: because selkeämpinä is not daily vocabulary for many speakers, it tends to appear in descriptive, evaluative, or theoretical writing rather than in casual conversation. When choosing between this form and more common alternatives, writers usually weigh the desired level of formality and the specificity of comparison.

See also: selkeä, selkeämpi, selkeästi.