yksityisellä

Yksityisellä is the adessive singular form of the Finnish adjective yksityinen, meaning private or personal. It is used to describe something connected with the private sector, private ownership, private funding, or a private basis, and to express location or source in relation to private actors or contexts. In everyday Finnish, it commonly contrasts with julkisella, meaning public or state-related.

In Finnish grammar, yksityisellä is formed from the stem yksityis- plus the adessive ending -llä, yielding yksityisellä. It agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case (for example, yksityisellä sektorilla, yksityisellä rahoituksella). The form is most often found when indicating location in space (on/at the private sector) or means (by private funding).

Common contexts and examples include:

- Hanke toteutetaan yksityisellä rahoituksella. (The project is funded with private funding.)

- Yritykset toimivat sekä julkisella että yksityisellä sektorilla. (Companies operate in both the public and private sectors.)

- Sopimus perustuu yksityisellä omistuksella todettuun taustaan. (The agreement is based on private ownership.)

Related terms include yksityinen (private, individual) and julkinen (public), with contrasts often drawn in discussions of sector financing, ownership, and regulation. Yksityisellä as a grammatical form enables precise expression of “in/with private” contexts and is a routine part of discourse in business, finance, and public policy discussions in Finnish.