Vuoteissa

Vuoteissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish noun vuode (bed). It means “in the beds” and is used to indicate location when referring to more than one bed. In Finnish, location is expressed with case endings; the inessive plural suffix is -issa/-issä, yielding vuoteissa. The corresponding singular form is vuoteessa (“in the bed”), while the nominative plural is vuoteet (“beds”).

Usage notes: Vuoteissa typically describes physical location, not ownership or attribute. It can describe people or objects occupying beds, such as a group of people in beds or hospital patients. It is common in narrative or descriptive contexts.

Examples:

- Lapset ovat vuoteissa koko yön. (The children are in bed all night.)

- Sairaalan potilaat makasivat vuoteissaan koko päivän. (The hospital patients lay in their beds all day.)

Related forms include vuoteessa (in the bed, singular inessive) and vuoteiden (beds, genitive plural). The expression is primarily used in Finnish to denote location of multiple beds and can appear in everyday speech as well as written text.