esseillä

Esseillä is a Finnish morphological form rather than a standalone lexical entry. It is the adessive plural form of the noun essee, which means “essay.” In Finnish, the adessive case (marking location or context) uses the suffix -llä/-illä; for plural nouns that form becomes -illä. Therefore esseillä literally translates to “on the essays” or “at the essays” in English, depending on the context.

In everyday Finnish, esseillä is not a commonly used form outside of grammatical discussion or linguistic analysis. Speakers who are not focusing on grammar typically use other forms of the word essee, such as esseet (the nominative plural) or esseissä (the inessive plural, “in the essays”). The distinction among these forms reflects Finnish’s extensive case system, which marks meaning through endings rather than prepositions alone.

Usage considerations include the rarity of esseillä in ordinary prose. It is more likely to appear in grammar tables, language-learning materials, or discussions about inflection than in standard narrative or dialogue. When conveying meaning related to essays in a general sense, writers typically opt for the nominative or other commonplace case forms rather than the adessive esseillä.

Related terms and forms include essee (singular), esseet (nominative plural), esseissä (inessive plural), and esseille (allative plural). Understanding esseillä helps illustrate how Finnish endings convey spatial and contextual nuances without fixed prepositions.