artikkeleilla

Artikkeleilla is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the plural adessive of the noun artikkeli, meaning “article.” The form translates roughly as “on the articles” or “with the articles” and is used to indicate location or association with multiple articles. The singular adessive is artikkelilla (on the article), while the plural nominative is artikkelit (the articles). The plural adessive is formed by taking the plural stem artikkelit and adding the adessive suffix -lla/-llä, yielding artikkeleilla.

Etymology: Artikkeli is a loanword borrowed from Swedish artikel, which traces back to Latin articulus or related forms in Romance languages. The Finnish adaptation preserves the root while adapting to Finnic phonology and spelling conventions.

Usage: Artikkeleilla appears in contexts where several articles are referenced or treated as a collective, such as academic writing, bibliographic descriptions, or discussions within a database or archive. It illustrates Finnish inflection rules for plural nouns in the adessive case and is part of standard literary language.

Examples and notes: The form is most commonly encountered in written Finnish when discussing groups of articles rather than individual items. Its use helps demonstrate how Finnish expresses location or association with plural nouns through case endings.