kielteisessä

Kielteisessä is a Finnish grammatical term referring to the inessive form of the adjective kielteinen, meaning negative. It is used to describe something that exists or is expressed in the negative, such as a statement, sense, or state. In everyday language, the form appears in phrases like kielteisessä lauseessa (in a negative sentence) or kielteisessä merkityksessä (in a negative sense). The concept is common in grammar descriptions, linguistic analysis, and language teaching.

Morphology and usage: Kielteisessä is an inflected form of the adjective used to modify nouns in the inessive case. It is part of the broader system of adjective declension in Finnish, where adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in case, number, and definiteness. The opposite form, describing positivity, is usually expressed with myönteisessä or a related positive construction. In practice, kielteisessä is most often found in discussions of negation, negated propositions, or analyses of negative language structure.

Examples:

- Lause on kielteisessä muodossa. (The sentence is in the negative form.)

- Tämä väite esitetään kielteisessä merkityksessä. (This claim is presented in the negative sense.)

- Esimerkki: “En mennyt” on kielteisessä lauseessa, jossa negatiivinen rakenne ilmenee sanan ei/negatiivisen apuverbin kautta.

Kielteisessä is a concise, neutral term used mainly in linguistic and grammatical contexts to denote negation-related description.