osittaista

Osittaista is a Finnish adjective form meaning partial or partly when used in the partitive construction. It typically describes a value, state, or quantity that is incomplete or only to a limited extent.

In Finnish grammar, osittaista is the partitive singular inflection of the adjective osittainen. This form appears with nouns in the partitive case, as in osittaista totuutta 'partial truth' or osittaista tietoa 'partial information'.

Usage: The term is common in academic writing, philosophy, and everyday speech to signal that a claim, result, or description is not complete. It is frequently found in compounds such as osittainen ratkaisu (partial solution) or osittainen vastuu (partial responsibility).

Examples include:

Tämä on osittaista totuutta. (This is a partial truth.)

Tutkimus julkaisi osittaista tietoa ilmiöstä. (The study published partial information about the phenomenon.)

He pyrkivät antamaan osittaista ratkaisua ongelmaan. (They aimed to provide a partial solution to the problem.)

See also: Related Finnish terms include osittain (partly) and osittainen (partial).