prosenttisella

Prosenttisella is the adessive singular form of the Finnish adjective prosenttinen, meaning "percent-based" or "expressed as a percentage." The base noun is prosentti (percent). Prosenttinen describes something related to percentage values, and prosenttisella is used to indicate the context or manner in which a quantity is measured or described, roughly translating to "at the percentage level" or "in percentage terms."

Usage and context: The term appears in statistical, economic, and scientific writing. It often accompanies nouns in the same case to express that a figure is given as a percent rather than as a raw count. Common phrases include "prosenttisella tasolla" (at the percentage level), "prosenttisella erotuksella" (with a percentage difference), and "prosenttisella kasvulla" (with percentage-based growth). For precision in comparing differences, Finnish also uses the term prosenttiyksikkö (percentage point), as in a reported difference of five prosenttiyksikköä.

Examples: Prosenttisella tasolla luvut ovat pysyneet vakaana viime vuosina. Ero kahden ryhmän välillä on noin viisi prosenttiyksikköä prosenttisella mittauksella arvioituna. In practice, prosenttisella is a formal, technical expression typical of analytical or reporting language.

See also: prosentti, prosenttinen, prosenttiyksikkö.