limittäisiä

Limittäisiä is a Finnish grammatical form, the partitive plural of the adjective limittäinen. The word limittäinen describes things that are adjacent, border-sharing, or contiguous. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify, and limittäisiä appears when the described item is treated as a part of an indefinite quantity or extent (partitive).

Usage and meaning

Limittäisiä is commonly found in contexts where two or more objects touch or share a boundary. Examples include geography, geometry, and spatial descriptions such as adjacent areas or neighboring cells. In sentences, limittäisiä modifies a plural noun in the partitive case, for instance: limittäisiä alueita (adjacent/contiguous areas) or limittäisiä soluja (adjacent cells). The nuance is that the items not only are near each other but actually border or touch.

Morphology

Limittäisiä is formed from the base adjective limittäinen with the standard plural partitive ending -i(a) for adjectives in partitive plural. The nominative plural is limittäiset, while the partitive plural is limittäisiä. The form is used when the emphasis is on the extent or the set of items being described rather than on a definite count.

Related terms

Limittäinen (the positive form) is the base adjective meaning adjacent or bordering. Synonyms in Finnish include viereinen, vierekkäinen. The term is primarily a descriptive, context-dependent descriptor rather than a standalone concept.

Notes

Limittäisiä is not a specialized technical term by itself but a grammatical form used in describing adjacency in Finnish prose. Its precise meaning depends on the noun it modifies and the syntactic role in the sentence. See also limittäinen and related spatial descriptors for broader usage.