lämmintä

Lämmintä is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective lämmin, meaning "warm." As a grammatical form, lämmintä appears in contexts that in Finnish require the partitive: impersonal weather expressions (On lämmintä — "It is warm"), sentences expressing an incompletely bounded quantity (Haluan lämmintä vettä — "I want some warm water"), and after verbs that govern the partitive case.

Pronunciation follows Finnish phonology: [ˈlɛmːintæ], with primary stress on the first syllable and a geminate /mː/. Morphologically it derives from the adjective stem lämmin and is inflected for the partitive singular; related forms include lämmin (nominative), lämpimän (genitive), and lämpimänä (essive).

In usage, lämmintä covers both literal temperature and figurative warmth. Common collocations include lämmintä ilmaa (warm air), lämmin vastaanotto (a warm welcome), lämmin suositus (warm recommendation), and lämmin juoma (warm drink). The antonym is kylmä (cold), while nearby synonyms might be leuto (mild) or lämminhenkinen (warm-hearted) when used figuratively.

Etymologically lämmin is from the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. The partitive form lämmintä is a routine inflection in Finnish grammar and widely used in everyday speech and writing to express ongoing, partial, or general states of warmth.