Ylemmässä

Ylemmässä is a form encountered in Finnish grammar. It is the inessive singular form of the adjective ylempi, meaning higher or upper. This form appears when the adjective modifies a noun in the inessive case and denotes location within a structure or area, for example in phrases such as yllemmässä kerroksessa (in the upper floor) or yllemmässä osassa rakennusta (in the upper part of the building).

Morphology and usage. Finnish adjectives decline for case, number, and degree. The comparative adjective ylempi (higher) can take the inessive ending -ssä with the appropriate consonant adjustments, yielding ylemmässä. The stem changes to accommodate the -mm- sequence that arises from combining the comparative suffix -mpi with the inessive ending. The result is a standard grammatical form rather than a separate lexical item with its own independent meaning.

Lexical status. In ordinary dictionaries, ylempi is listed as the base form, with ylemmässä appearing only as a derived inflected form in context. Its meaning remains “in the upper” or “in the higher” relative to a reference point described by the noun it accompanies. The exact nuance depends on the noun and broader sentence context.

Capitalization notes. If written as Ylemmässä with an initial capital, it is typically treated as a proper noun or a title rather than as the grammatical form described above. There are no widely recognized places, organizations, or works commonly known by the name Ylemmässä in general reference sources, so capitalization would indicate a specific referent rather than a general grammatical usage.

See also: Finnish grammar, comparative adjectives, inessive case.

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