monikansallisessa

Monikansallinen is a Finnish adjective meaning multinational, used to describe organizations, activities, or contexts that involve several nations. The form monikansallisessa is the inessive singular, indicating location or context within a multinational setting, for example in monikansallisessa yrityksessä (in a multinational company) or monikansallisessa projektissa (in a multinational project).

The base form monikansallinen declines like other Finnish adjectives according to the noun it modifies. The genitive singular is monikansallisen, the inessive singular is monikansallisessa, and the partitive singular is monikansallista. This morphological pattern allows the term to fit smoothly into Finnish sentences describing corporate, political, academic, or cultural contexts involving more than one nation.

Etymology traces the word to the combination of moni- meaning many and kansallinen meaning national, yielding a compound that explicitly signals involvement across national borders. In usage, monikansallinen often appears in discussions of business, governance, or research that span multiple countries. It typically carries a nuance of formal or organizational breadth, as opposed to kansainvälinen, which emphasizes relations between nations rather than the presence of multiple nationalities within a single entity.

Related terms include monikansallisuus (multinationality), kansainvälistyminen (internationalization), and monikansallinen yhtiö (multinational company). Monikansallinen is thus a common descriptor in Finnish discourse about globalized economies, cross-border collaboration, and diverse, multinational work environments.