kylmässä

Kylmässä is a Finnish adjective phrase meaning “in the cold.” It is the inessive singular form of the word kylmä (cold) and is used to indicate location within a cold environment or a state characterized by coldness. The suffix -ssä marks the inessive case, one of Finnish’s locative cases.

In practical use, kylmässä appears in phrases describing where something is or how something feels. For example, kylmässä vedessä means “in cold water,” and kylmässä huoneessa means “in a cold room.” The form is common in descriptive writing and everyday speech when the speaker wants to convey atmosphere or environmental conditions.

As a motif, kylmässä is sometimes employed in Finnish literature and media to evoke mood, isolation, or hardship associated with cold, though it does not belong to a single, fixed work. Its use is typically context-dependent, aligning with broader Finnish stylistic tendencies to express place and sensation through grammatical cases rather than standalone prepositions.

See also: kylmä, inessive case, Finnish grammar.