paikoissa

Paikoissa is a Finnish noun form meaning “in the places.” It is the inessive plural form of paikka, which means place. In Finnish, the inessive case marks location, with paikassa as the singular form and paikoissa as the plural form. Thus paikassa conveys “in the place” while paikoissa conveys “in the places” or “in various places.”

Usage and examples

Paikoissa is commonly used when referring to locations distributed across multiple places. For example, a statement like “Tutkimukset tehtiin paikoissa ympäri maata” means that the studies were conducted in locations across the country. The phrase “joissakin paikoissa” (in some places) is a frequent collocation for indicating partial distribution. In written language, paikoissa can appear in descriptive passages, reports, and travel or geography texts to emphasize multiple locations.

Related forms and notes

Other relevant inflections of paikka include paikassa (in the place, singular inessive), paikkoihin (into the places, illative plural), and paikasta (from the place, elative/genitive-related forms). The word is often contrasted with singular inessive paikassa, which refers to a single location, and with allative forms such as paikoille (to the places). Understanding paikoissa helps in parsing Finnish location expressions and describes spatial distribution across multiple sites.

See also

Finnish grammar: locative cases (essive/inessive/illative), noun declension, place vocabulary.