kontakteissa

Kontakteissa is a Finnish noun form derived from kontakti, meaning contact. It is the inessive plural form and can be translated roughly as “in the contacts” or “among the contacts,” depending on the context. The form is used mainly in linguistic descriptions, technical writing, or data-domain language to refer to a collection or location of contact records within a system.

Etymology and form: Kontakti is a loanword, with the Finnish inessive case marking location or state. The plural inessive ending -issa/-ssä yields kontakteissa, a pattern seen with several i-stem loanwords in Finnish. This form shows how borrowings adapt to Finnish case and number systems.

Usage: Kontakteissa is a specialized form and is infrequently used in everyday speech. It appears primarily in dictionaries, grammar explanations, or technical documents that discuss contact lists, directories, or data schemas. In common conversation, speakers would use more everyday expressions such as being in touch (yhteydessä) or refer to a single contact as kontaktissa in a different grammatical context, or use kontaktit when listing items in the nominative plural. Phrases that combine case forms with other nouns can occur, but they typically employ other cases (e.g., kontaktien, kontaktoinnin) to fit the desired meaning.

See also: kontakti; yhteys; yhteydenpito.