statistisessä

Statistisessä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish adjective statistinen, meaning “statistical.” The form is used to describe something related to statistics or the field of statistics and appears in phrases such as “statistisessa mielessä” (in a statistical sense) and “statistisessa tutkimuksessa” (in a statistical study). As an inflected form, stattisessa follows Finnish case patterns of adjectives.

In usage, Finnish typically employs tilastollinen as the standard term for “statistical.” Statistinen and its inflected forms are understood, but they are more common in older texts, in certain technical contexts influenced by English, or in some borrowed phrases. For everyday or formal statistical language, tilastollinen and its derivatives (tilastollisesti, tilastollisia tietoja) are preferred. Fixed collocations with statistinen include phrases in which the sense of statistics is central, but many speakers would choose tilastollinen in standard scientific writing.

Etymology traces statistinen to the broader family of terms borrowed into Finnish from other European languages, reflecting the concept of statistics. The language also features related forms such as adverbs derived from statistics (for example, statistisesti) or the more common tilastollisesti in scientific prose. Overall, statistisessä functions as a grammatically correct inessive form used to emphasize the statistical aspect in a given context, though it often sits alongside tilastollinen as the more widely used term in contemporary Finnish.