kaksikielisessä

Kaksikielisessä is an inflected form of the Finnish adjective kaksikielinen, meaning bilingual. It is used to describe something that exists within or is characteristic of a bilingual context. As with other Finnish adjectives, kaksikielinen agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, so inessive singular forms like kaksikielisessä appear in phrases such as kaksikielisessä ympäristössä or kaksikielisessä koulussa.

In Finnish, the inessive case expresses a location or situation “in” something. Therefore kaksikielisessä functions as the modifier in phrases referring to environments, institutions, or practices where two languages are present or used. Common examples include kaksikielisessä koulussa (in a bilingual school), kaksikielisessä yhteisössä (in a bilingual community), or kaksikielisessä mediassa (in bilingual media). The term can also describe people who use two languages or communities and organizations that operate with two languages.

Related concepts include kaksikielisyys, which denotes bilingualism as a property or phenomenon, and monikielisyys or monikielinen, which refer to multilingual situations involving more than two languages. The form kaksikielisessä is part of Finnish grammar's adjective inflection pattern and illustrates how adjectives modify nouns within different cases to convey specific meanings about language use and context.

Overall, kaksikielisessä serves as a precise adjectival marker for bilingual contexts in Finnish, highlighting the coexistence or use of two languages within a given setting.