ylimmät

Ylimmät is a Finnish adjective in its plural superlative form, meaning the uppermost or highest ones within a group. It is used to describe things that occupy the top position or rank compared with others in the same set. The form is typically used with plural nouns and in nominative or accusative cases, for example: ylimmät kerrokset (the uppermost floors), ylimmät pisteet (the highest scores), ylimmät johtajat (the top executives).

In everyday language, ylimmät can be employed in physical, spatial contexts as well as in metaphorical or evaluative ones. It often appears in descriptions of buildings, shelves, or layers where something is physically above the rest, as well as in rankings, competitions, or assessments where some items are considered superior to others. The word conveys a sense of being at the extreme upper end of a scale, rather than simply “higher” in a relative sense.

Grammatically, ylimmät is part of a family of adjectives that express the superlative degree in plural form. The positive base form used for comparison varies by root, but ylimmät consistently marks the plural superlative and agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case.

See also: ylimp, ylä- prefixes, kerros, pisteet, johtajat.