putkimaisissa
Putkimaisissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective putkimainen, meaning pipe-like. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case; when describing plural nouns in the inessive case (indicating location, roughly “in” or “inside”), the form is putkimaisissa. The word functions as an adjective rather than a standalone noun.
Etymology and form: putkimainen is formed from the noun putki (pipe) with the adjectival suffix -mainen, yielding
Usage: Putkimaisissa commonly appears in descriptive or technical writing, such as biology, architecture, material science, or
Related forms: The base adjective is putkimainen (pipe-like); the related noun form conveying the concept of
See also: Finnish grammar and morphology of -inen adjectives; putki; putkimainen; putkimaisuus.