mutaisella

Mutaisella is the adessive singular form of the Finnish adjective mutainen, meaning muddy. In usage, mutaisella describes the surface condition of a noun and indicates that something is on or located on a muddy surface, as in phrases like mutaisella tiellä or mutaisella pihalla. The form is typically seen when the associated noun is in the adessive case.

Etymology and morphology: mutainen is formed from muta (mud) with the adjectival suffix -inen. The adessive singular form mutaisella is created to agree with a singular noun in the adessive case (for example tiellä = on the road, pihalla = in the yard). The word therefore functions as an adjective in a case-marked construction, rather than as a standalone noun.

Usage notes: Mutaisella is common in descriptive writing and everyday speech when specifying conditions of terrain or surfaces, such as roads, fields, or yards after rain. It does not stand alone; it modifies a noun that is expressed in a corresponding case, e.g., mutaisella tiellä, mutaisella pellolla. The term can carry practical emphasis (difficulty moving, need for caution) and may appear in weather or travel descriptions as well as in literature.

See also: mutainen, Finnish adjectives, Finnish grammar, adessive case.

In summary, mutaisella is the grammatical form used to say “on the muddy [surface]” in Finnish, arising from the adjective mutainen and used with nouns in the adessive case to describe location or surface condition.