presentissä
Presentissä is a Finnish term that appears in linguistic and philosophical discussions to denote the state of being in the present moment. It is formed by taking a stem akin to the English word present and adding the Finnish inessive suffix -issä, which marks location or state of being “in” something. In practice, presentissä signals a focus on the present time rather than on past or future.
The word is not common in everyday Finnish, where speakers typically use nykhetkessä or tässä hetkessä to
Examples of usage include phrases such as: “Tutkimus käsittelee presentissä olemisen kokemusta” (The study addresses the
Relation to other terms: presentissä should not be confused with preesens, the grammatical present tense in