kiireisessä

Kiireisessä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective kiireinen, meaning busy or urgent. It represents the inessive singular form and is used when kiireinen modifies a noun that is in the inessive case, for example in phrases like in a busy situation or state. In practice, niinaky- phrases such as kipeä?—the important idea is that kiireisessä describes a noun’s state while that noun is marked as being “in” something. For instance, you can say: Hän on kiireisessä aikataulussa (He/She is in a busy schedule) or Kiireisessä elämässä on haastavia paineita (In a busy life there are stressful pressures).

Kiireisessä is normally found as part of a noun phrase rather than as a standalone word. It agrees with the noun it describes in number and case. The form contrasts with other case forms of kiireinen and with kiire, the unrelated noun meaning “hurry” or “busyness.” For example, kiireessä is the inessive form of the noun kiire, meaning “in a hurry” or “in a state of busyness,” and is used differently from kiireisen (the genitive of kiireinen) or kiireistä (partitive).

Common contexts for kiireisessä include everyday descriptions of temporary states, such as in meetings, schedules, or life circumstances: “kiireisessä kokouksessa” (in a busy meeting), “kiireisessä aikataulussa” (in a busy timetable). The broader nuance is a situation characterized by hurry or heavy activity rather than a static attribute.

See also: kiire (hurry/busyness), kiireinen (busy/urgent as an adjective), kiireessä (inessive of the noun kiire).

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