täällä

Täällä is a Finnish adverb meaning "here," used to indicate location relative to the speaker or to the current discourse. It denotes a place in the immediate vicinity or in the area being discussed and is often contrasted with words meaning “over there” such as tuolla or tuossa.

In everyday use, täällä functions as a location marker in statements and questions. Examples: Olen täällä. (I am here.) Täällä on hyvä sää. (The weather is nice here.) Hän asuu täällä päin. (He/she lives around here.) The form can combine with particles to express additional nuance, for example täälläkin (here as well) or täälläpäin (in this area).

Grammatical notes on usage and variation: täällä is an invariant adverb in ordinary speech, but it freely combines with suffix-like particles to modify meaning, such as täälläkin, täälläpäin, tai täälläpäin. It contrasts with other Finnish locatives such as siellä (there) or tuolla (over there), which refer to more distant or different places. In written Finnish, täällä reliably signals a proximal, speaker-centered reference, while in speech it is common in everyday conversation and informal contexts.

Etymology and relation to other forms: täällä derives from a demonstrative or deictic element that denotes proximity, combined with a locative/adessive sense to form a fixed adverb meaning “here.” Its usage is native to Finnish and is one of the core spatial adverbs frequently encountered in both spoken and written language.