Tekstissä

Tekstissä is a Finnish word-form meaning "in the text" or "within the text." It is the inessive case form of the noun teksti (text) and is used to express location inside a textual source rather than a physical space. The form is common in academic, journalistic, and everyday writing when referring to content, statements, or features that appear inside a document or literary work.

Morphology and related forms: The inessive suffix in Finnish is -ssä/-ssä; for teksti it yields tekstissä. This follows the standard pattern of adding -ssä to indicate “in.” Related case forms include tekstin (genitive: of the text), tekstiin (illative: into the text), and tekstistä (elative: from the text). The word remains a neutral noun used to discuss content and structure of texts.

Usage notes: Tekstissä marks a location within a text, often introducing quotes, claims, or descriptions that are contained in the source being discussed. Common constructions include "Tekstissä sanotaan..." (The text states...) and "Tekstissä kerrotaan..." (The text explains…). It can also describe the organization of content, such as "Tekstissä on kolme kappaletta" (The text has three paragraphs).

Etymology: Teksti comes from Latin textus via Finnish borrowing and adaptation. The inessive form tekstiässä reflects Finnish case morphology rather than a new lexical meaning.

See also: teksti, tekstin, tekstistä.

Notes: The use of tekstissä is primarily functional in analysis and reporting about written material. Distinctions from possessive or other cases (for example, tekstissään, "in his/her text") depend on the intended referent and syntactic role.