kiireellisessä

Kiireellisessä is an inflected form of the Finnish adjective kiireellinen, meaning urgent or time-sensitive. The base word kiireellinen describes something that requires prompt action or immediate attention. Kiireellisessä is the inessive singular form used with a noun to indicate being in an urgent state or to specify an urgent context, for example in phrases like ki​​ireellisessä tilassa or kiireellisessä käsittelyssä.

Grammar and usage notes: Kiireellinen adjectives inflect for case, number, and definiteness just like other Finnish adjectives. The inessive form ki​ireellisessä is created by adding the suffix -ssä to the stem, resulting in ki​ireellisessä when paired with a noun in the same clause. It commonly accompanies nouns that denote situations, processes, or services, such as tilassa (state), hoidossa (care), or käsittelyssä (processing). For example, ki​ireellisessä tilassa means “in an urgent state,” and ki​ireellisessä hoidossa means “in urgent care.” In this sense, ki​ireellisessä signals that the urgency affects the conditions or procedures being described.

Contexts and nuance: The term is widely used in healthcare, administration, journalism, and law to distinguish between tasks or situations requiring rapid response and those that are routine. It is often contrasted with more general or less time-sensitive terms such as kiireellinen in everyday language, or with hätä- or välitön, which convey different degrees or kinds of urgency. While kiireellinen denotes urgency, hätä- or hätätilanne emphasizes a crisis or emergency and may carry stronger connotations of danger.

See also: kiireellinen hoito, kiireellinen käsittely, hätätilanne, kiirtohoito.