nesteillä

Nesteillä is the plural adessive form of the Finnish noun neste, meaning liquid. In language use, nesteillä is used to indicate location on or with liquids, i.e., something is on the surface of liquids or in contact with liquids. It is a regular inflected form and should not be confused with the company name Neste, which is capitalized when referring to the Finnish energy company.

Morphology and related forms: The base word is neste (liquid). The plural nominative is nesteet. The plural adessive form, nesteillä, means on the liquids or on top of liquids. Other related forms include nesteen (genitive singular), nesteistä (elative singular or partitive plural in certain constructions), and nesteille (plural allative, meaning onto the liquids). Understanding these forms helps in parsing sentences about liquids in scientific, culinary, or everyday contexts.

Usage and contexts: Nesteillä is common in technical or food-related language, where liquids function as a surface or medium. It can appear in descriptions of experiments, recipes, or processes where objects rest on or interact with liquids. In everyday Finnish, adessive and allative plural forms for noch contexts involving liquids appear mainly in more formal or specialized discourse.

Examples:

- Näytteet asetettiin nesteille.

- Kokeen aikana mittaus tehtiin nesteillä olevan näytteen päällä.

Notes: The form nesteillä is distinct from nesteille (allative plural), which indicates movement toward or onto liquids, as in onto the liquids. Both forms are part of standard Finnish grammar and are used according to the intended sense of location versus direction. See also neste (liquid) and related case forms for broader usage.