käynnillä

Käynnillä is a Finnish noun form meaning "on a visit" or "during a visit." It is the adessive singular form of the noun käynti, which denotes the act of visiting or calling on someone. The word is used to describe a person being in the act of visiting a place or meeting someone, and it can indicate a temporary or planned presence in a location.

In usage, käynnillä is common in formal and semi-formal writing as well as in news reports and official communications. It often appears to convey that someone is currently visiting a person, a site, an institution, or a city. For example, a sentence might say that a politician or a delegations team is "käynnillä kaupungissa" (on a visit to the city) or that a hospital official is "käynnillä" at a facility. The term can function with various destination phrases, and it tends to emphasize the event or purpose of the visit rather than everyday casual visiting.

Nuances and synonyms: käynnillä is closely related to käynti, the more general noun for a visit or calling. A more everyday synonym is vierailu, which also means "visit" but may carry a softer or more neutral nuance. Käynti/käynnillä often carries a sense of an official or purposeful visit, especially in media and formal contexts.

Etymology and morphology: käynnillä is derived from verb käydä "to go, to visit" via the noun käynti, with the adessive suffix -llä (-llä in standard spelling). The form marks location or state: "on a visit" or "during a visit." Related forms include käynti (visit) and käynnillä some other grammatical cases for different functions.

See also: vierailu, käynti, käydä.