kentässä

Kentässä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish noun kenttä, meaning “field” or “area.” In Finnish grammar, the inessive case (ending in -ssa/-ssä) marks a static location inside a place, so kentässä literally means “in the field.” The form is used when indicating that something is located within the boundaries of a field or field-like space.

In practice, kentässä can appear in physical contexts as well as in metaphorical or specialized domains. It is one of several locative forms derived from kenttä, with kentällä meaning “on the field,” kenttään meaning “into the field,” and kentästä meaning “from the field.” The choice among these forms depends on the spatial relation being described and the speaker’s emphasis on interiority versus surface or direction.

Finnish compounds often retain kenttä’s core meaning, and related phrases can take locative forms too. For example, tietokenttä (“data field”) or urheilukenttä (“sports field”) may be inflected in ways appropriate to their syntactic roles, such as tietokentässä or urheilukentässä when the location is being described in the inessive sense.

Pronunciation-wise, kentässä is pronounced with a double s: [ˈken.tæ.sːæ]. Spelling reflects the regular application of the inessive suffix -ssä to a stem ending in -tä/-t, a common pattern in Finnish.

Notes: Kentässä is a standard grammatical form in Finnish and can appear in literature, academic writing, or formal descriptions. For everyday references to a location on the field, kentällä is more commonly used.