äänteessä
Äänteessä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish noun äänne, meaning a sound or phoneme. In Finnish, äänne can refer to both a concrete sound and the abstract unit used in phonology. The inessive case, marked by the suffix -ssä, expresses location and can be translated roughly as “in a sound” or “in the phoneme.” The form is mainly encountered in linguistic descriptions and analyses rather than in everyday language.
Morphology and form: The word is built from the stem äänne with the inessive suffix -ssä. Because
Usage and scope: In practical Finnish, äänteessä as a standalone term is rarely needed outside scholarly writing.
Relation to other concepts: The term intersects with fields such as phonetics, phonology, and morphophonology. It
See also: Finnish phonology, phoneme, allophone, inessive case, morphophonology.