kumulatiivisella

Kumulatiivisella is the adessive singular form of the Finnish adjective kumulatiivinen, which means cumulative. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify and take the same case endings as the noun. Therefore kumulatiivinen becomes kumulatiivisella when describing a noun in the adessive case. The form is used when the phrase refers to something located “on” or associated with a noun in the adessive, or when speaking of manner with a noun in that case.

Common usages of kumulatiivisella occur in phrases that express manner, projection, or condition in a sentence. For example, kumulatiivisella tavalla means “in a cumulative manner,” and kumulatiivisella vaikutuksella can translate as “with a cumulative effect.” The form also appears in contexts like kumulatiivisessa vaiheessa (“in the cumulative phase”) or kumulatiivisen vaikutuksen kappaleessa (“in the section of the cumulative effect”), illustrating how the adjective aligns with the noun’s case.

Etymologically, kumulatiivinen stems from kumulointi, meaning accumulation, with roots tracing back to Latin cumulus. In Finnish, kumulatiivinen is widely used in statistics, science, and everyday language to describe processes, distributions, or effects that build up over time. Kumulatiivisella, as a grammatical variant, enables precise expression in sentences where the relevant noun is in the adessive case, preserving clear agreement and natural syntax.

See also kumulatiivinen, kumulatiivinen jakauma, kumulatiivinen summa.