kilogrammoissa

Kilogrammoissa is a Finnish noun form derived from kilogramma, the SI unit of mass. It is the inessive plural, commonly translated as “in kilograms” or, in some contexts, “in the kilograms.” It is used when mass is described or discussed in terms of kilograms in a way that treats kilograms collectively or as a category rather than as individual items.

Usage of the form is most typical in technical, statistical, or descriptive writing. In everyday speech, when a specific quantity is given, speakers more often use the partitive form kilogrammaa (for example, viisi kilogrammaa). Kilogrammoissa can appear when referring to bulk masses, distributions, or ranges, such as reporting weights in a dataset or discussing masses across a group of items.

Grammar and morphology notes: Kilogrammoissa is formed by applying the inessive plural suffix to the stem associated with kilogramma. This demonstrates Finnish patterns for inflecting mass unit nouns in plural. The singular inessive would be kilogrammassa (in a kilogram) and the singular or plural forms differ in other cases, with the partitive kilogrammaa used for precise quantities.

See also: kilogramma; Finnish grammar; inflection; inessive case; measurement units.