kokonaisilla

Kokonaisilla is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective kokonainen, used as the adessive plural to describe something as whole or complete in the sense of entirety, or to indicate that multiple items share a property of completeness. The base word kokonainen means "whole" or "entire." In Finnish noun–adjective agreement, adjectives take endings according to case and number, so the adessive plural form is kokonaisilla, as in kokonaisilla mittauksilla or kokonaisilla alueilla.

Usage notes:

The form is common in scientific, technical, and formal writing when describing comprehensive or complete approaches or datasets. It is not a standalone noun; it modifies a following plural noun in the adessive case, roughly translating to "with/at the whole" or "under comprehensive [conditions]."

Examples:

- Kokonaisilla mittauksilla varmistettiin tulosten luotettavuus. (The results' reliability was verified with comprehensive measurements.)

- Kokonaisilla menetelmillä tutkimus eteni. (The study progressed with comprehensive methods.)

Notes:

In everyday speech, speakers may opt for shorter expressions such as kokonaiset or koko + plural nouns, whereas kokonaisilla tends to appear in precise descriptive contexts. The term should not be confused with kokonaisuus, the noun meaning "the entirety" or "completeness."

See also:

Finnish grammar; Adessive case; Finnish adjectives; kokonaisuus.