suolapitoisissa

Suolapitoisissa is a Finnish adjective form meaning “in salt-rich” or “in saline-containing” contexts. It is the inessive plural form of suolapitoinen, which describes something that has a high salt content. The word is used to characterize environments, substances, or conditions where salt concentration is elevated.

In practice, suolapitoisissa appears in phrases such as suolapitoisissa maaperissä (in salt-rich soils), suolapitoisissa vesissä (in saline waters), or suolapitoisissa olosuhteissa (in salty conditions). It is common in scientific and technical language, including geology, hydrology, agriculture, and food science, to express that a given material or setting possesses a high level of salt. The related noun is suolapitoisuus, meaning salt content or salinity.

Finnish uses suolapitoinen as a descriptive adjective, with suolapitoisissa serving as a specific inflected form to indicate location or context (in the salt-rich things being referred to). The term is often paired with a clarifying noun to specify what is salt-rich, rather than standing alone.

See also: suola, suolapitoisuus, suolaisuus.