asutuilla

Asutuilla is a Finnish-language grammatical form that serves as an adjective phrase meaning “in inhabited places.” It is formed from the past participle asuttu, meaning inhabited or lived in, with the adessive plural suffix -illa, and is used to indicate location in descriptive contexts.

In practical use, asutuilla modifies a following noun phrase to specify that the referenced places are inhabited. A common construction is asutuilla alueilla, which translates to “in inhabited areas.” The form appears in geographic, demographic, planning, and historical writing to distinguish areas where people live from uninhabited or sparsely populated regions.

Linguistically, asutuilla illustrates Finnish compounding of a participial adjective with a location case suffix. While asuttu itself signals habitation, asutuilla activates the locative sense in plural, aligning with the typical Finnish pattern of adjectives agreeing with the noun they modify.

Usage considerations include that asutuilla is not a standalone noun but part of a larger noun phrase. It tends to appear in formal or descriptive Finnish rather than casual speech, and is commonly found in official documents, maps, and scholarly texts discussing settlement patterns or land use.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, Finnish geography terminology.