Välisissä

Välisissä is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the inessive plural of the noun väli, meaning a gap, space between, or interval. In Finnish, the inessive case denotes being located “in” something, and the plural form välisissä is used when the reference is to multiple gaps or interspaces.

As a usage form, välisissä appears in phrases describing physical spaces or abstract relationships that involve several interspaces. For example, a sentence like Rakennusten välisissä tiloissa kasvaa rikkaruohoja translates to “Weeds grow in the spaces between the buildings.” Here välisissä modifies tiloissa (spaces/areas) to indicate multiple interspaces.

Väli as a base word can also appear in other case forms and compounds, such as väliä (partitive), väliin (into the gap), or välit (plural of a related noun meaning 'gaps' or 'intervals'). Välisissä is most natural in contexts that explicitly refer to more than one interspace or where the reference is plural in meaning.

Etymologically, välisissä comes from väli with the locative suffix -issä, indicating location, and the plural form to align with multiple gaps. It is a standard part of Finnish morphology and is understood in formal and written Finnish, though it tends to occur in descriptive or spatial contexts rather than everyday speech.

See also: väli, välissä, välit, välinen.

Välisissä thus functions as a precise grammatical form for describing being “in the gaps between” multiple elements, and it is most commonly encountered in descriptions of spaces, structures, or relational positioning.