parillisissa
Parillisissa is a Finnish grammatical form used to describe plural nouns in the inessive case with the meaning “in the even ones” or “in even numbers.” It is the plural inessive form of the adjective parillinen, which means even or even-numbered. The form parillisissa appears when the noun it modifies is plural and located in the inessive case, as in parillisissa numeroissa (“in even numbers”) or parillisissa ryhmissä (“in even-numbered groups”).
Parillisissa follows the standard Finnish pattern for adjective agreement. The base adjective parillinen takes the -issa/-issä
Parillisissa is most common in mathematical, statistical, or formal writing where one speaks about elements that
- Parillisissa numeroissa luvut 2, 4 ja 6 ovat tyypillisiä esimerkkejä. (In even numbers, the numbers 2,
- Parillisissa ryhmissä osallistujat jaetaan pareittain. (In even-numbered groups, participants are divided in pairs.)
parillinen, Finnish adjective declension, Finnish inessive case.