karakteristiikassa

Karakteristiikassa is a Finnish grammatical form that serves as the inessive singular of the noun karakteristiikka, meaning a characteristic or feature. The form expresses “in the characteristic” or, more broadly, “in terms of the characteristics” depending on the context. It is used when speaking about the features associated with a subject, concept, or object within a described framework.

Morphology and usage in Finnish grammar are typical of the language’s case system. The suffix -ssa marks the inessive case, indicating location or context inside a feature or set of features. For nouns like karakteristiikka, the inessive singular becomes karakteristiikassa, a standard result of applying the case ending to the base form.

In practice, karakteristiikassa appears in academic, descriptive, and evaluative writing. It is common in linguistics, social sciences, product descriptions, and cultural analyses when authors discuss a particular feature set or when they refer to characteristics presented earlier in the text. The construction is especially likely to occur in phrases such as karakteristiikassa mainitut piirteet (the features listed in the characteristics) or karakteiistalähtöisestä analyysistä, where the analysis centers on features or traits.

See also: karakteristiikka, inessive case (Finnish grammar), Finnish noun inflection.