jyrkkiä

Jyrkkiä is a Finnish adjective form meaning steep or abrupt, and it is the partitive plural form of the adjective jyrkkä. It is used when describing more than one steep thing in contexts where the noun is in the partitive case or when the amount is indefinite. For example, jyrkkiä rinteitä means steep slopes, and jyrkkiä kallioita means steep cliffs.

In geographical and landscape descriptions, jyrkkiä frequently appears to characterize terrain with pronounced slopes, sheer faces, or abrupt changes in elevation. The word can also be found in hiking guides, topographic writings, and travel literature to convey the steepness of natural features. Beyond physical terrain, it may be used figuratively to describe abrupt or sharp changes in non-geographic contexts.

Grammatically, jyrkkiä is the plural partitive form of jyrkkä. The corresponding singular forms are jyrkkä (nominative singular) and jyrkää (partitive singular), while the natural nominative plural is jyrkät. Adjectives in Finnish agree with their nouns in number and case, so jyrkkiä appears with plural nouns in the partitive or with other constructions requiring a partitive plural adjective.