sekunteissa
Sekunteissa is a Finnish-language term that translates to “in seconds.” It is an inflected form of the noun sekunti, which denotes a unit of time equal to one sixtieth of a minute. The phrase is used when durations or measurements are described in seconds, particularly in contexts such as sports timing, scientific experimentation, and everyday language about short time periods.
In Finnish, sekunti can take various inflectional forms depending on case and number. The form sekunteissa
- Sekunteissa is typically used when discussing multiple seconds or a duration expressed in seconds.
- The expression often appears in performance rankings, timing records, and procedural instructions where precise time measurements
- Because Finnish morphology is productive, similar constructions can be formed with other time units (e.g., minuutteissa
See also: sekunti, time measurement, Finnish grammar, inessive case.