yksiköllä

Yksiköllä is the adessive singular form of the Finnish noun yksikkö, meaning "unit." It is used to indicate location or means in Finnish grammar and occurs frequently in technical or formal text when the unit of measurement or the counting unit is the referent of the sentence. The form is created by adding the adessive suffix -llä to the noun: yksikkö -> yksiköllä. The stem vowel can influence how the final letters appear, but yksiköllä is a standard form.

Usage and nuance: In Finnish, the adessive case marks location ("where") or means/instrument ("with what"). With the noun yksikkö, yksiköllä often appears in phrases describing how something is done or measured using a unit, or indicating the presence of a unit in a system. It is common in technical writing, product specifications, and pricing language. In everyday language, other forms (like the partitive or genitive) are more frequent for counting units, while yksiköllä appears primarily when the unit itself is the focus or a particular unit is being referred to as a tool or reference point.

Examples:

- Hinta on 2 euroa yksikköä kohti. (price per unit)

- Järjestelmä voidaan käynnistää yhdellä yksiköllä. (the system can be started with a single unit)

See also: Finnish grammar, adessive case, yksikkö, unit, pricing terminology.