salkuissa

Salkuissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish noun salkku, meaning briefcase or portfolio. It denotes location inside multiple briefcases and is used when speaking about where items are kept in several cases.

In Finnish grammar the inessive case expresses location inside something. For plural references, the suffix -issa/-issä attaches to the plural stem, producing salkuissa from the plural form salkut. Thus salkuissa literally translates to “in the suitcases.”

Usage examples illustrate its meaning in context. For instance, Kaikki tärkeät asiakirjat olivat salkuissa means all the important documents were inside the suitcases. The form is a normal inflected variant of salkku and does not carry a separate lexical sense beyond the phrase “in the suitcases.” It is commonly encountered in everyday Finnish when describing the location of items within multiple cases or folders.

Related terms include salkku (briefcase) and broader discussions of Finnish noun inflection and cases. Salkuissa serves as a concrete example of how plural inessive forms function in commonly used -kku nouns.