Sokissa

Sokissa is a Finnish word that appears as an inessive form, used to indicate that something is located inside or within something else, such as a sock. In Finnish, the inessive case marks a location expressed by the preposition “in/inside,” and forms like sokissa show how the base noun changes to convey that sense.

In everyday Finnish, sokissa can occur in plain descriptive or narrative contexts. It is most commonly encountered in phrases describing the position of objects or living things relative to a container or space, for example something being inside a sock. The exact noun that yields sokissa as its inessive form can vary, since Finnish creates inessive forms by adding the appropriate suffix to the chosen noun. Because of this, sokissa serves as a concrete example of how the language marks location inside something.

Linguistically, sokissa illustrates Finnish case harmony and inflection, where the -ssa/-ssä suffix indicates inside-ness, and the final form can interact with the base noun’s ending. Finnish uses a rich system of cases to express location, direction, and other relations, with the inessive being just one of several locative forms. Sokissa, as a commonly cited instance, helps learners recognize how nouns change to reflect position in space within Finnish grammar.

See also: Finnish grammar, Inessive case, Locative expressions.