erillisillä

Erillisillä is a Finnish adjective form meaning “on separate” or “on distinct ones,” and it is the plural adessive form of the adjective erillinen. It is used to describe plural nouns in the adessive case, indicating that those items are kept apart from others or handled separately. In practice, erillisillä appears before a plural noun in a context such as budgeting, accounting, or data management to emphasize segregation or separate handling.

Etymology and grammar: erillinen is formed from the root erill- with the suffix -inen, yielding the basic meaning “separate.” The word follows Finnish adjective agreement rules, where in the plural adessive it takes the form erillisillä to agree with a plural noun in the adessive case (for example, tileillä = on the accounts; erillisillä tileillä = on separate accounts). The related adverb is erikseen, and related nominal forms include erillinen (singular) and erillisille (dative-like form for some constructions).

Usage: erillisillä is common in administrative, financial, and organizational language when distinguishing items that are kept apart from standard or consolidated groups. Examples include keeping funds, records, or data on separate accounts, files, or backups. It often appears in official statements, reports, manuals, and policy documents to convey segregation or parallel handling of resources.

Examples:

- Rahat pidetään erillisillä tileillä. (The funds are kept on separate accounts.)

- Kustannukset on jaettu erillisille tileille. (The costs have been divided into separate accounts.)

- Tiedot säilytetään erillisillä varmuuskopioilla. (The data are stored on separate backups.)

See also: erillinen, erikseen, eriyttää.