Vanhemmilla

Vanhemmilla is a Finnish grammatical form serving as the adessive plural of the noun vanhemmat, which means “the parents.” It is used to indicate location or possession, depending on the surrounding verb and context. In everyday language it appears most often in sentences that describe what the parents have or where they are.

As a possession marker, vanhemmilla is used with the verb olla (to have). For example, vanhemmilla on kolme lasta translates to “the parents have three children.” This demonstrates how the adessive case marks the possessor in Finnish grammar: the owner is expressed in the adessive form, while the possessed item follows the verb olla.

As a location marker, vanhemmilla can mean “at the parents’ (place)” or “with the parents,” depending on context. For example, pronouncing that someone is at a place associated with the parents can yield sentences like they were vanhemmilla, meaning they were at the parents’ home. The exact sense is determined by the surrounding words and the intended meaning of the speaker.

Vanhemmilla should not be confused with vanhemmat (parents) or with vanhempi (older/elder, or the singular noun for a parent). The form is a case-based inflection rather than a separate word, and its interpretation relies on syntactic context. In practice, vanhemmilla is a common and natural part of Finnish sentence construction when referring to the parents in terms of location or possession.