fraaseissa

Fraaseissa is a Finnish linguistic term that refers to the inessive plural form of the noun fraasi, meaning “in phrases” or “within phrases.” The term is used in linguistic description and language teaching to discuss phrases that function as fixed or conventional expressions, such as idioms, set phrases, or collocations.

A fraasi (plural fraasit) refers to a unit of meaning that is recognized as a conventional expression rather than a freely composed combination of words. Fraaseissa is used when describing or analyzing multiple such expressions within a text, discourse, or linguistic data, emphasizing their phrase-level status rather than individual word meaning.

Morphology and usage: In Finnish, fraasi declines like a standard noun. The inessive singular is fraasissa, and the inessive plural is fraaseissa. The form fraaseissa is therefore used to indicate a location or context that is inside many phrases. The related genitive plural is fraasien, and the nominative plural is fraasit.

In practice, fraaseissa appears in academic writing, dictionaries, and language corpora when researchers discuss how fixed expressions function within larger sentences. It helps distinguish fixed, idiomatic units from freely chosen word sequences, highlighting how meaning can be influenced by conventional phrasing.

See also: fraasi, idiomi, kollokaatio, set phrase.