sekundaarisille

Sekundaarisille is a Finnish grammatical form: the allative plural form of the adjective sekundaarinen, meaning secondary or of secondary status. In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun they modify in number and case, and the allative case is expressed with the suffix -ille. When the noun is plural and in the allative, the adjective takes the same ending, yielding sekundaarisille. The phrase functions to refer to a group described as secondary, as in contexts where resources, responsibilities, or roles are allocated to secondary rather than primary units; the noun itself is often omitted in such elliptical constructions.

Etymology and usage: The adjective sekundaarinen derives from Latin secundarius via the Finnish word formation, reflecting a long-standing tendency to borrow from Latin for terms of ranking or sequence. Sekundaarisille is thus a product of standard Finnish inflection rules rather than a separate lexical item with a fixed standalone meaning.

Frequency and context: The form is relatively rare outside formal or technical prose. It appears mainly in linguistic explanations, scholarly writing, or specialized texts where secondary groups are discussed. In everyday speech, speakers tend to use more explicit phrases such as "sekundaarisiin ryhmiin" or rephrase with alternative words.

See also: Finnish grammar, allative case, adjective declension.