luvuissa

Luvuissa is a Finnish word formed as the inessive plural of luku, meaning “in the numbers” or, depending on context, “in the chapters.” The base noun luku has two main senses: numerical value or figure, and a chapter in a book or document. The plural form luvut denotes multiple numbers or multiple chapters, and adding the inessive suffix -issa yields lu vu i ssa, giving the meaning “in the numbers” or “in the chapters.” Because luku can refer to either numbers or chapters, lu vu i ssa can be ambiguous without context; speakers rely on surrounding words to indicate which sense is intended.

In practice, lu vu i ssa is most common in statistical or data-driven writing. It is used to discuss content of data sets, tables, or figures, for example: “Luvuissa on eroja eri alueiden välillä” (There are differences in the numbers by region). In financial reports or academic articles, the phrase helps point to the values being analyzed rather than to a narrative description. In literary or publishing contexts, luku can mean chapter, and lu vu i ssa could theoretically mean “in the chapters,” though such usage is less common and writers often choose more explicit phrasing to avoid ambiguity.

Related terms include luvut (numbers or chapters in plural) and luvussa (in the chapter) or lukujen (of the chapters or of the numbers) depending on grammatical case and number. Understanding lu vu i ssa relies on recognizing the dual sense of luku and the Finnish case system to determine whether the reference is to numerical data or to sections of a text.