hyödyllisissä

Hyödyllisissä is a Finnish grammatical form of the adjective hyödyllinen, meaning useful or beneficial. It is the inessive plural form, used to describe multiple nouns in the inessive case (the case indicating “in” or within). The form appears when an adjective modifies a plural noun and the whole phrase is in the inessive, for example before the noun it describes.

Morphology and usage

In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. The base adjective hyödyllinen becomes hyödylliset in the nominative plural and hyödyllisissä in the inessive plural. The construction hyödyllisissä is thus not a standalone word but an inflected adjective form that precedes a plural noun in the inessive case. Typical contexts include references to groups of items or concepts that are considered useful, such as tools, applications, or methods, when the location or context is specified as being “in” those useful things.

Examples

- hyödyllisissä välineissä means “in useful tools.”

- hyödyllisissä sovelluksissa means “in useful applications.”

In ordinary prose, hyödyllisissä is usually part of a larger phrase and not used in isolation.

Etymology

The form derives from hyödyllinen, itself from hyöty meaning benefit or usefulness, with the typical Finnish adjective suffix -llinen. The inessive plural ending -issä attaches to the adjectival stem to reflect the plural, inessive context.

See also

Finnish grammar, adjective inflection, inessive case, Finnish noun–adjective agreement.