Sisältäas

Sisältäas is a fictional term used in discussions of narrative perspective and Finnish linguistics as an illustrative concept to describe a hypothetical way of encoding an internal viewpoint in a sentence. It is not attested in standard Finnish grammar and does not appear in major dictionaries. The term is sometimes employed in academic exercises or speculative fiction to explore how perspective could be marked in language.

Etymology and form: The coinage combines sisältä, meaning “inside” or “from inside,” with a fictional suffix -as that would signal interiorized perspective. In this imagined system, -as could attach to predicates or to verbal phrases to indicate that the action or perception is experienced from the speaker’s or protagonist’s inner point of view. The concept is intended as a thought experiment rather than a description of current Finnish usage.

Characteristics and usage: As a hypothetical mechanism, sisältäas would emphasize subjectivity and inner experience, aligning with ideas from interior monologue or deep focalization in narrative theory. In practice, it would function alongside or replace existing devices like adjectives, participles, or punctuation that signal viewpoint, offering a compact grammatical marker for “from inside.”

Examples (hypothetical and fictional): Hän näkee talon sisältäas. Translation: He sees the house from an inside perspective. Minä tunnen kylmän sisältäas. Translation: I feel the cold from inside. These examples illustrate the intended sense, not conventional Finnish idiom.

See also: focalization, interior monologue, point of view, narrative perspective. Note: sisältäas is presented here as a speculative concept for discussion and learning, not as an established feature of Finnish.