hiutaleissa

Hiutaleissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish noun hiutale, meaning a snowflake or a small flake of ice or other material. The term translates roughly as “in the flakes” and is used to indicate location or state inside multiple flakes or within the flakes collectively. It is primarily a grammatical expression rather than a standalone concept.

In Finnish, hiutaleet is the plural nominative; hiutaleissa is the inessive plural. Other inflected forms include hiutaleiden (genitive) and hiutaleista (elative). The word can describe snow-related contexts as well as non-snow contexts such as food flakes (for example maissihiutaleet, corn flakes).

Usage tends to occur in descriptive writing about snow or atmospheric phenomena, and is less common in everyday speech. It can also appear in poetry or scientific prose to indicate something embedded within flakes, such as microstructures or phenomena trapped within snow crystals. As a grammatical form, hiutaleissa serves to locate an element inside multiple flakes rather than to convey a separate, independent concept.

See also hiutale (snowflake) and hiutaleet (snowflakes), as well as general references to corn flakes in Finnish.