hedelmissä

Hedelmissä is the inessive plural form of hedelmä, the Finnish word for fruit. The inessive case expresses location, roughly meaning “in” or “inside,” so hedelmissä translates to “in the fruits” and is used when referring to something found inside multiple fruits.

In Finnish, nouns are inflected for number and case. The plural inessive ending is -issä, which is attached to the plural form of the noun. Therefore, the plural inessive form hedelmissä is used when speaking about more than one fruit in a locational sense. The corresponding singular form is hedelmässä, meaning “in the fruit.”

Hedelmissä appears in contexts such as biology, agriculture, nutrition, and cooking, especially when discussing contents, seeds, or measurements inside several fruits. It is more common in written or technical language, though it can also appear in narrative prose when precise spatial description is needed.

Example: Hedelmissä on siemeniä. In practice, many everyday statements about fruits use the singular (in the fruit) rather than the plural, but hedelmissä is appropriate when the reference is to multiple fruits as a group.

See also: hedelmä, Finnish grammar, inessive case.