aalloissa

Aalloissa is a Finnish word meaning in the waves. It is the inessive plural form of aalto, which refers to a wave in the sea. The phrase describes being located within or amid waves and is most common in nautical contexts, but it can also appear in poetry or figurative language to convey immersion in a dynamic situation.

Morphology and usage notes: In Finnish, the inessive case marks location with the suffix -ssa (singular) or -issa (plural). Therefore, aalto becomes aalloissa in the inessive plural. Aalloissa is used when speaking about multiple waves or a collective wave environment, for example when describing a ship, a swimmer, or a shoreline momentarily surrounded by waves.

Examples: Laiva kulkee aalloissa. Purjevene heiluu aalloissa. Myrskyn edessä purjeita pidettiin tiukasti kiinni ja aallot jylisivät aalloissa. In literary contexts, aalloissa can be used metaphorically to express being immersed in changing circumstances or emotional surges, though such uses are less frequent than literal nautical references.

See also: aasioiden aaltoilu and expressions using aalto and other inflected forms. Aalloissa is one of several Finnish locative forms tied to the noun aalto and is most naturally used in descriptive writing about the sea or in poetic imagery.