nimellä

Nimellä is the adessive singular form of the Finnish noun nimi, meaning name. It is used to express the idea of “with the name” or “by the name” and to indicate the means by which someone or something is identified, referred to, or registered. In practice, nimellä appears in sentences where a person, organization, or item is identified by a specific name rather than another label.

Common usages include referring to a person or entity under a particular name or alias, or to indicate that something is presented or registered using a given name. For example, a person might appear or operate nimellä “Kettu,” and a company might conduct business nimellä Acme Oy. The form is also found in journalistic or administrative contexts when it is important to specify the exact name used for identification.

Nimellä is one of several case forms of nimi; the suffix -llä marks the adessive case. Other related forms, such as nimen (genitive) or nimeä (partitive), serve different grammatical purposes. The choice of nimellä versus nimenä or other forms depends on the meaning the speaker intends, particularly whether the emphasis is on the means of identification (nimellä) or the role or designation (nimenä) in a given sentence.

In summary, nimellä functions as a standard grammatical tool in Finnish to denote that something is done or described using a particular name, and it is widely used in everyday language, legal contexts, and media when naming or identifying entities.