ohittaessaan

Ohittaessaan is a Finnish word that is often used in context to mean "on the way" or "while passing by". It is a compound word composed of ohitta, meaning "to pass by" or "to bypass", and saa, which indicates direction or manner.

In general use, ohittaessaan refers to a situation where one is moving past or through a location without stopping or intending to visit. It can be used to describe a range of actions or situations, from a literal physical journey to a more figurative or metaphorical path.

In language, ohittaessaan often takes the grammatical form of a parenthesis, indicating that the action is concurrent or simultaneously occurring. For example, "Menin kaupunkiin, ohittaessaan mökkitalosta" translates to "I went to the city, passing by the summer cottage on the way."

As an idiomatic expression, ohittaessaan is often used in spoken or informal Finnish, and can be somewhat difficult to translate directly into English. The phrase can convey a sense of movement, progression, or adjacency, but may lose some nuance or subtlety in translation.

In linguistic and cultural studies, ohittaessaan has been analyzed as a key example of how Finnish language differentiates between directions, moments, and the notions that these entities are in a flux, using not fixed, linear notions, but exploit fluid description of their move and transformation.