lehdissä

Lehdissä is the inessive plural form of the Finnish noun lehti. The base lehti can mean either a newspaper or a leaf/leaflet, so lehdissä translates roughly as “in the newspapers” or “in the leaves,” depending on context. The sense is determined by the surrounding words and the intended meaning of lehti in the sentence.

In usage, lehdissä is most common when referring to printed media, such as multiple newspapers. For example, a statement like "Uutinen julkaistiin lehdissä viime viikolla" indicates that the news appeared in several newspapers. The form can also apply to plant leaves in a botanical context, as in "kasvin lehdissä" to indicate something located inside or on the leaves of a plant. Context usually clarifies which meaning is intended.

Grammatically, lehdissä is the plural inessive form, signaling location "in" or "inside" multiple leaves or newspapers. The corresponding singular form is lehdessä, meaning "in the newspaper" or "in the leaf." This inflection pattern—root lehti with plural -t and the inessive plural suffix -ssä—illustrates Finnish case and number systems in everyday vocabulary. Lehti itself is a polysemantic noun, and lehdissä highlights how Finnish relies on case endings to convey precise locative meaning.

See also: Finnish grammar, inflection, inessive case, lehti (noun).