eissä
Eissä is not a stand-alone Finnish word. In Finnish grammar, -issa and -issä are the inessive plural endings, used to mark “in, inside” in reference to multiple items. The sequence eissä appears when the stem of a noun ends with the front vowel e and takes the plural inessive ending -issä; thus words ending in -e can yield forms such as tiedeissä.
In practice, the inessive plural indicates location within more than one item. The choice between -issa and
- taloissa means “in the houses” (talo = house; back vowels, plural inessive -issa).
- kissoissa means “in the cats” (kissa = cat; front vowels, plural inessive -issä).
- tiedeissä means “in the sciences” (tiede = science; front vowels, plural inessive -issä).
- eissä occurs specifically as part of the suffix after stems ending in front vowels, producing forms
- The concept is a feature of Finnish morphology rather than a separate lexical item; it reflects
Note: For clarity, “eissä” is best viewed as a morphological ending pattern rather than a distinct