pienessä

Pienessä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish adjective pieni, meaning small or little. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case, and the inessive marks location roughly equivalent to "in" or "inside." Therefore pienessä is used when the noun it accompanies is singular and in the inessive, for example pienessä talossa meaning "in the small house."

Formation and use: The form pienessä is produced by attaching the inessive ending to the stem of pieni. Adjectives change to suit the noun they describe; the corresponding plural inessive form is pienissä, as in pienissä taloissa meaning "in the small houses." Pienessä functions as an adjective, not a standalone noun, and appears within noun phrases or predicative constructions alongside a noun in the inessive case.

Examples:

- Pienessä talossa asuu koira. (A dog lives in the small house.)

- Pienessä kaupungissa on vanha kirkko. (There is an old church in the small town.)

- Pienessä pussissa on hiekkaa. (There is sand in the small bag.)

Notes: Pienessä is part of standard Finnish grammar and is commonly used in everyday language, literature, and description to convey size and location. The form highlights the interaction between size (pieni) and location (the inessive case) without adding an article or separate preposition.

See also: Finnish language, adjectives, Finnish grammar, inessive case.