Virheissä

Virheissä is a Finnish noun form meaning “in the errors” or “in the mistakes.” It is the inessive plural of virhe, which denotes a fault, error, or misstep. The form virheissä is used to indicate a location or context that exists inside multiple errors, and it can be used both literally (within textual or procedural mistakes) and metaphorically (within flawed processes or systems).

Usage of virheissä spans grammar, literature, and philosophy. In everyday language it may appear in sentences such as Tekstin virheissä on korjattavaa, which points to mistakes in a text that need fixing. Metaphorically, virheissä piilee oppimisen mahdollisuus is a common way to express that there is an opportunity to learn within mistakes. The term often appears in discussions about learning, quality control, design, and risk assessment, where acknowledging and analyzing errors is seen as a route to improvement.

In Finnish, virheiden (elative case) and virheissä (inessive case) illustrate different grammatical relationships: virheissä locates action or state within errors, while virheistä points to learning or information derived from mistakes. The concept is closely related to phrases like oppiminen virheistä (learning from mistakes) and virheiden tunnistaminen (identifying errors). The use of virheissä emphasizes the environmental or contextual aspect of faults, rather than a single isolated misstep.

See also: virhe, virheellinen, epäonnistuminen, oppiminen virheistä.