Questions & Answers about Tässä laitteessa on paljon voimaa.
What does tässä mean here?
Here, tässä means in this.
It is the inessive form of tämä (this), so:
- tämä laite = this device
- tässä laitteessa = in this device
A common beginner confusion is that tässä can also mean here, but in this sentence it is tied to laitteessa and works like this in in this device.
Why does laitteessa end in -ssa?
The ending -ssa / -ssä is the Finnish inessive case, which usually means in.
So:
- laite = device
- laitteessa = in the device
The form changes from laite to laittee-ssa because of normal stem changes in Finnish nouns.
Why are both tässä and laitteessa in the same case?
Because in Finnish, a demonstrative like tämä often agrees with the noun it modifies.
So English in this device becomes Finnish tässä laitteessa, where both words show the in idea:
- tässä = in this
- laitteessa = in the device
This is very normal in Finnish:
- tässä talossa = in this house
- tässä autossa = in this car