adessiivisessa

Adessiivisessa is a Finnish linguistic term describing a form related to the adessive case. In Finnish grammar, the adessive (on/at) is one of the case markings used to express location. The word adessiivinen means “adessive,” and adessiivisessa is the adjective adessiivinen inflected in the inessive case to mean “in the adessive.” This form is used primarily in linguistic description and grammar discussions to talk about the case itself or about something that is in the adessive.

In grammatical analysis, adjectives and nouns agree in number and case within noun phrases. When describing a thing that is located in the adessive, one can encounter the phrase adessiivisessa käytössä (in adessive use) or adessiivisessa sijainnissa (in adessive position), where the adjective adessiivinen is inflected to match the case of the noun it describes. The result is a form such as adessiivisessa, adessiivisen, etc., depending on number and grammar context. The construction is typically found in scholarly works, grammar guides, and discussions about Finnish case systems rather than in everyday speech.

Common points of reference include the distinction between adessive and other surface-location cases, and the way adjectives take the same endings as nouns to express case. Adessiivinen and its inflected forms show how Finnish marks spatial relations within noun phrases. For learners, recognizing adessiivisen usage helps clarify how location and relation are encoded in Finnish syntax.

See also: Finnish grammar, cases (adessive, inessive), adjective declension.