etäisemmässä

Etäisemmässä is a Finnish inflected form used to express a higher degree of remoteness or distance. It is the inessive singular form of the comparative adjective etäisempi, which means more distant or more remote. The form signals that the noun it modifies is in a more remote state or location relative to a reference point.

Morphologically, etäisemmässä combines the comparative adjective etäisempi with the inessive case marker -ssä, yielding a phrase meaning “in the more distant/remoter ….” The same pattern applies to other nouns in the inessive plural, for example etäisemmissä tiloissa (in the more remote rooms/in spaces). This makes etäisemmässä a useful tool for precise stylistic and descriptive writing, especially in geography, planning, or literary descriptions.

Usage notes: etäisemmässä is typically used in formal or descriptive contexts to compare levels of remoteness. It often appears with nouns in the inessive case, such as etäisemmässä kaupungissa, etäisemmässä kylässä, or etäisemmässä tapauksessa. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for simpler constructions like kauempana or kauempana sijaitseva, depending on the sentence.

Relation to other forms: etäisemmässä is related to the base adjective etäisempi (more distant) and to the adverbial form etäisemmin (more distantly), which are used in different grammatical contexts. Etäisemmässä helps specify location or circumstance as being comparatively more remote.

See also: Finnish adjectives in comparative forms, inessive case usage, descriptive stylistics.