vakavammissa

Vakavammissa is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the adjective vakava, meaning serious or severe. The word is used to indicate a higher degree of seriousness and is common in contexts such as medicine, safety, risk assessment, and formal writing. It functions as the inessive plural form of the comparative adjective vakavampi, effectively meaning “in more serious conditions” or “in more severe cases.”

Morphology and usage notes: The base adjective vakava becomes the comparative vakavampi. When describing plural conditions or situations, the word is inflected in the inessive plural form, yielding vakavammissa, which covers phrases like “in more serious conditions” or “in more severe cases.” The corresponding singular form is vakavammassa (in a more serious condition). In practice, vakavammissa is typically used with plural nouns such as tilanteissa (situations) or tapauksissa (cases), for example: vakavammissa tilanteissa, vakavammissa tapauksissa.

Common contexts and nuance: Vakavammissa is used to compare levels of severity rather than to assign absolute danger. It often appears in medical guidelines, emergency communications, safety advisories, and analytical writing to distinguish more severe scenarios from less severe ones. It does not by itself imply a particular outcome, but signals the need for heightened assessment or response relative to a reference level.

Examples:

- Potilaan tila on vakavammissa tiloissa, ja hänet on siirrettävä tehohoitoon.

- Vakavammissa tapauksissa potilaita seurataan tiiviisti ja hoitoa tehostetaan.