pysyvällä

Pysyvällä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective pysyvä, commonly translated as "permanent," "lasting" or "stable." It combines the adjective stem pysyvä with the adessive case ending -llä, which generally indicates location ("on, at"), possession or means ("with, by"). As such, pysyvällä is used in contexts like "pysyvällä parkkipaikalla" (at the permanent parking spot) or "työskennellä pysyvällä sopimuksella" (to work under a permanent contract).

Grammatically, pysyvällä is the singular adessive form and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case; Finnish adjectives do not mark gender. It occurs where the adessive case is required by syntax or idiom, for example to mark position, accompaniment, instrument, or possession (with the existential construction "olla jollakulla"). The base adjective pysyvä derives from the verb pysyä ("to remain, stay") plus the adjectival suffix -vä; the adessive ending is a common locative case marker in Finnish.

Related forms include pysyvä (nominative), pysyvän (genitive), pysyvää (partitive), pysyvässä (inessive), and the adverb pysyvästi ("permanently"). Pysyvällä itself is not typically an independent dictionary headword but appears frequently in inflected usages across spoken and written Finnish, especially in legal, administrative and everyday contexts describing enduring conditions or arrangements.