laajoilla

Laajoilla is a Finnish term that functions as the adessive plural form of the adjective laaja, meaning “on broad areas” or “in wide regions.” It is not a standalone noun, but a grammatical form used to describe location in a general sense, often in geographic, environmental, or statistical writing. The base word laaja conveys the idea of breadth or extent, and the adessive suffix -lla/-llä marks location, while the plural form laajoilla refers to multiple areas.

In usage, laajoilla appears in sentences that discuss conditions, characteristics, or phenomena spanning large geographic zones rather than a single point. For example, a sentence such as “Laajoilla alueilla sää on yleensä vaihteleva” expresses that weather is variable across wide regions. The construction emphasizes scope and distribution rather than precise locality.

Etymology and related forms: laaja is the base adjective meaning broad; the adessive form laajoilla is formed by adding the adessive suffix to the plural or collective sense of the stem. Related forms include laaja (singular, “wide”) and laajat (plural, “broad”). The adessive case is one of several Finnish locational cases used to indicate where something occurs or is observed.

See also: Finnish grammar, Adessive case, Laaja. Note that Laajoilla is a grammatical form rather than a named place, and it is rarely encountered as a proper noun.