asteikossa

Asteikossa is a Finnish word form meaning "in the scale" or "within the scale." It is the inessive case of asteikko ("scale" or "rating scale"), created by adding the Finnish inessive suffix -ssa/-ssä. The term is used to indicate that something is located inside, measured by, or considered relative to a particular scale or range.

In usage, asteikossa can describe numerical rating contexts (for example, responses or measurements that fall within a predefined interval), conceptual scales (such as degrees of intensity or severity), and domains like musical or temperature scales. A typical example in Finnish might describe results presented within a scale: "Tulokset esitettiin asteikossa 1–10," translated as "The results were presented on a scale of 1–10." In everyday Finnish, related case forms such as asteikolla ("on the scale") are also common and convey similar locative or instrumental meanings.

Grammatically, asteikossa illustrates how Finnish expresses spatial and abstract relations through case endings rather than prepositions. The base noun asteikko belongs to regular noun inflection patterns, and speakers select case forms (inessive, adessive, elative, etc.) according to nuance and syntactic role. The term appears across fields that employ scales, including statistics, survey research, education, and musicology.