pyöreällä

Pyöreällä is a Finnish word that functions as the adessive singular form of the adjective pyöreä, meaning round. In Finnish, the adessive case marks location on the surface of something or at a place, so pyöreällä is used with a noun in adessive to describe something that is located on a round object or surface.

Usage of pyöreällä typically occurs with nouns in the adessive case, as in examples such as: Kukka on pyöreällä pöydällä (A flower is on the round table) and Kissa makaa pyöreällä matolla (The cat lies on the round rug). The form can describe literal shape or, more broadly, a relation to a round item in space or arrangement.

Morphology and related forms: Finnish adjectives decline for case and number, so pyöreä has several inflected forms. In addition to pyöreällä, common related forms include pyöreän (genitive), pyöreää (partitive), pyöreässä (inessive), pyöreästä (elative), pyöreälle (allative), pyöreäksi (translative), and pyöreänä (essive). These forms illustrate how the same base meaning round can be applied across different grammatical roles.

Etymology and meaning: The word derives from the Finnish adjective pyöreä, rooted in the concept of being round. Pyöreällä, as a grammatical form, does not introduce a new meaning by itself beyond “on/at a round [surface],” but it enables precise spatial expression within Finnish grammar.

See also: Finnish grammar, Finnish adjectives, adessive case, pyöreä.