Spesifistä

Spesifistä is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective spesifi, meaning specific or particular. It is used when the noun it modifies is indefinite or uncountable, and the statement refers to a specific aspect or element rather than to the whole. In Finnish, this form commonly appears in technical, scientific, and academic language.

Spesifi is a loanword from English specific and has become integrated into Finnish usage. The adjective also yields other related forms, such as spesifinen as a base attributive form, and the adverb spesifisti meaning specifically. The related noun spesifisyys denotes specificity or the degree of being specific, a term frequently found in biology, medicine, and information science.

Usage examples illustrate its role in context. For instance: Tarvitsemme spesifistä tietoa päätöksenteon tueksi. Here the partitive spesifistä marks the indefinite object information that is specifically needed. The form helps distinguish a precise subset or detail from a broader category, which is useful in analysis, reporting, and experimental descriptions.

Overall, spesifistä functions as a common grammatical tool in Finnish to express specificity within a partially defined or non-predicative frame, reflecting the broader adoption of the concept of specificity in modern Finnish discourse. See also: spesifi, spesifinen, spesifisyys, spesifisti.