pavuissa

Pavuissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish noun papu, meaning bean. In Finnish, the inessive case marks location “in” or “inside,” and the plural ending indicates that the reference is to more than one bean. Thus pavuissa literally means “in the beans.” It is not a separate concept or term, but a grammatical form used in context to describe where the beans are located.

Morphology and related forms: The basic plural of papu is pavut (beans). The inessive plural is formed from the plural stem by adding the ending -issa, producing pavuissa. The singular inessive is pavussa (in the bean). Other related forms include pavun (genitive singular) and pavujen (genitive plural). These inflections illustrate how Finnish nouns change with case and number.

Usage: Pavuissa is used in literal statements about the location of beans, such as in cooking, storage, or labeling contexts where a distinction is made about where the beans are found. In everyday speech, speakers may choose more general wording for location, but pavuissa appears in written text, recipes, nutritional labels, or descriptive passages requiring precise locational phrasing.

Notes: Like other Finnish inflected forms, pavuissa agrees with number and any modifying adjectives or determiners in the sentence. It demonstrates the language’s rich case system, where location is encoded directly in the noun form rather than with separate prepositions.

See also: Finnish grammar, Noun cases, Papu.

References: Standard Finnish grammar references and introductory Finnish language resources.