pitemmässä

Pitemmässä is a Finnish grammatical form, the inessive singular of the comparative adjective pitempi, meaning longer. It is used to refer to the longer of two or more items or to indicate something in a longer version or extent. As a grammatical form, it functions within noun phrases where the modified noun is in the inessive case (the “in” or “inside” form).

Morphology and usage are relatively straightforward: pitempi forms the comparative degree of pitkä, and when it precedes a noun in the inessive, the ending changes to -mässä, yielding pitemmässä. This form must agree with the noun in number and case, so you can find pitemmässä versiossa (in the longer version), pitemmässä tekstissä (in the longer text), or pitemmässä mittakaavassa (in the larger scale). It is not an independent adverb or standalone noun; it is an inflected adjectival form.

In practice, pitemmässä is most common in written or edited Finnish, particularly when distinguishing between two or more versions, extents, or contexts that have different lengths or degrees of detail. In everyday speech, speakers may prefer the simpler pidempi, but pitemmässä appears in contexts that require explicit reference to the longer form in a specific case.

Examples include: Tarina on tarjolla pitemmässä versiossa. Esitys voidaan toteuttaa pitemmässä mittakaavassa. Tässä artikkelissa on pitemmässä tekstissä enemmän esimerkkejä. Etymologically, it derives from the adjective pitempi, itself a form of pitkän meaning long; pitemmässä is the inessive singular used to modify a noun in that case.