mustavalkoisessa

Mustavalkoisessa is a Finnish adjective form meaning “in black and white.” It is the inessive singular form of the adjective mustavalkoinen, which describes things rendered in grayscale or lacking color.

Mustavalkoinen is a compound of musta (black) and valkoinen (white) and is used to describe images, media, and visual styles that appear without color. The form mustavalkoisessa is used when the noun it modifies is in the inessive case, roughly translating to “in a black-and-white …” in English. For example, mustavalkoisessa valokuvassa means “in a black-and-white photograph,” and mustavalkoisessa elokuvassa means “in a black-and-white film.”

In everyday Finnish, the concept is common in discussions of photography, cinema, and art, where the grayscale or stylistic choice is notable. The word can be inflected to match different nouns and cases, with mustavalkoisessa serving as the standard inessive singular form. Related forms include mustavalkoinen (base form, nominative singular), mustavalkoiset (nominative plural), and other case forms such as mustavalkoisen, mustavalkoista, and mustavalkoisissa.

See also: mustavalkoinen, grayscale, Finnish adjectives, Finnish grammar.