Yksiselitteisenä
Yksiselitteisenä is the essive form of the Finnish adjective yksiselitteinen, meaning unambiguous or unequivocal. In Finnish grammar, the essive case (often formed with the ending -na/-nä) expresses a temporary state or role, roughly corresponding to the English phrase “as …” or “in the state of ….” Therefore yksiselitteisenä literally means “as unambiguous” or “in an unambiguous state.”
The form is most common in written, formal, or scholarly Finnish, where speakers want to stress that
- Väite esitettiin yksiselitteisenä. (The claim was presented as unambiguous.)
- Tulkinta pidettiin yksiselitteisenä. (The interpretation was considered unambiguous.)
The term is built from the root yksiselitteinen (unambiguous) with the essive suffix -nä/-na, which marks a
Yksiselitteisenä shares emphasis with synonyms like selkeä or yksiselitteinen in describing clarity, but the essive form