lyhimmillä

"lyhimmillä" is the adessive plural form of the Finnish adjective "lyhyt," meaning "short." The adessive case in Finnish, indicated by the suffix "-llä" or "-illä," generally expresses possession, location, or means. When used with adjectives in the plural, it describes something belonging to or associated with multiple short things. For example, "taloissa lyhimmillä seinillä" would translate to "in the houses on the shortest walls." The adjective "lyhyt" itself is a fundamental descriptive word in Finnish, used to denote a lack of length, duration, or extent. Its comparative form is "lyhyempi" (shorter), and its superlative is "lyhyin" (shortest). Therefore, "lyhimmillä" specifically refers to the adessive plural of the superlative form, indicating "on the shortest ones" or "with the shortest ones," depending on the context. This grammatical construction is crucial for precise expression in Finnish when discussing multiple entities that are the shortest within a given group.