Vaikeilla

Vaikeilla is a Finnish adjective form that serves as the adessive plural of the stem vaikea, meaning difficult. Like other Finnish adjectives, vaikea inflects to agree with the noun it modifies in number and case. When the noun is plural and in the adessive case, the adjective takes the ending -illa or -illä, yielding vaikeilla. This form appears in phrases such as vaikeilla tehtävillä or vaikeilla paikoilla, where it describes the accompanying plural noun in the adessive.

Common usage and meaning: vaikeilla conveys that the referenced tasks, places, or other elements are perceived as challenging or demanding. It is not a standalone noun but an attributive form that appears before a plural noun in the adessive case. The function is to indicate the environment or conditions under which something occurs, for example "Hanke etenee vaikeilla tehtävillä" (The project progresses with difficult tasks) or "Vaikeilla paikoilla työskentely vaatii erityistä varovaisuutta" (Working in difficult places requires special caution).

Related forms and variations: other case forms for the adjective moeilijk include vaikkillään illative plural (to difficult places), vaikkilla genitive plural, and singular counterparts such as vaikealla (adessive singular) and vaikealle (illative singular). These inflections parallel those of the noun they modify, allowing a cohesive description across grammatical contexts. The base word vaanikea can also appear in various compound expressions, but the semantic core remains “difficulty” or “challenge.”

Etymology and language role: vaikea is a native Finnish adjective derived from the noun concept of difficulty, with standard inflection patterns across cases and numbers. Vaikeilla, as one specific inflection, enables precise expression of “in/with difficult [plural nouns].” See also Finnish grammar, adjectives, and the adessive case.