tiheämmissä

Tiheämmissä is a Finnish inflected form that expresses location within something that is more dense or thick. It is the inessive plural form of the comparative adjective tihempi, which means “more dense” or “thicker.” The construction combines the comparative stem tiheäm- (from tiheä, dense) with the inessive plural suffix -ssä, producing tiheämmissä. The result communicates “in the denser ones/places” and is used with plural nouns in the inessive case, typically referring to environments, populations, or distributions that are denser than another reference point.

Usage and context tend to be descriptive or analytical. Tiheämmissä is common in ecology, geography, urban planning, journalism, and scientific writing when contrasting densities such as vegetation cover, population, traffic, or noise levels. For example, phrases like tiheämmissä metsissä or tiheämmissä asuinalueissa translate to “in the denser forests” and “in the denser residential areas,” respectively.

Notes on morphology: tiheä means dense; tihempi is the comparative form meaning “denser.” In the inessive plural, the form becomes tiheämmissä, with phonological adjustment typical of Finnish comparative adjectives. The form does not stand alone as a noun; it functions as an adjective in the inessive plural agreeing with the head noun in number and case.

See also: tiheä, tiheämpi, tiheimmät (related forms discussing density levels).