eläimellä

Eläimellä is the adessive singular form of the Finnish noun eläin, meaning animal. It functions as a grammatical case form used to express location or ownership related to an animal, among other related senses. In standard Finnish, the adessive is used to indicate that something is located on or at the animal, or that the animal possesses or bears something in a general sense.

Formation and related forms: The adessive suffix -llä/-llä attaches to the stem of eläin, giving eläimellä in the singular. The corresponding plural form is eläimillä, used when referring to more than one animal. Other cases of eläin include inessive (eläimessä, in the animal), genitive (eläimen, of the animal), and partitive (eläintä, an animal as a partitive object), illustrating how Finnish nouns change across cases.

Usage: Eläimellä is commonly used to indicate possession or association by the animal, for example in sentences like Eläimellä on turkki, meaning “The animal has fur.” It can also mark location or context involving the animal, such as phrases describing where something is relative to the animal or what is associated with the animal, depending on the sentence structure and discourse.

See also: Finnish grammar, especially the adessive case and noun declension; examples of other cases for the noun eläin (such as inessive, elative, genitive, and partitive).