värikkäillä

Värikkäillä is the adessive plural form of the Finnish adjective värikäs, meaning colorful. It appears before a plural noun in the adessive case and is used to describe things that are located, present, or characterized in a context expressed by the adessive construction. In English, it can be rendered as “with colorful” or “on colorful,” depending on the sentence.

Morphology and usage are typical of Finnish adjectives: värikäs changes form to agree with the noun it describes in number and case. The adessive plural form värikkäillä is used when the corresponding noun is plural and in the adessive case, for example with locations or means such as clothing, fabrics, or patterns. This form cannot stand alone as a predicate; it functions as part of a noun phrase.

Common contexts include describing clothing, textiles, or designs, especially in fashion or design writing. Examples include phrases like värikkäillä kuoseilla varustetut vaatteet (clothes equipped with colorful patterns) or hän erottui värikkäillä kengillään (he stood out with his colorful shoes). The construction emphasizes the presence or appearance of color in the described plural nouns rather than making a general statement about the colorfulness of the subject.

Etymology-wise, värikkäillä derives from värikäs (colorful) with the standard Finnish adjective endings for adessive plural. Related forms include värikäs (singular) and värikkäät (nominative plural).

See also: värikäs, Finnish adjective declension, adessive case.