Dokumentoidaan

Dokumentoidaan is a Finnish verb form that expresses the action of documenting in the passive voice. It denotes that documentation work is being performed or is required, without indicating who is responsible. The form is related to the verb dokumentoida (to document) and is used in formal texts, guidelines, and process descriptions to state that certain information or artifacts must be recorded.

In practice, dokumentoidaan appears in contexts such as information management, software development, quality assurance, and archival work, where clear documentation of data, decisions, and procedures is a mandatory or ongoing part of the process. The construction helps keep instructions impersonal and universally applicable, which is common in policy documents and compliance materials.

Examples include phrases such as: Dokumentoidaan kaikki käyttäjätiedot ennen järjestelmän käyttöönottoa. Prosessin jokainen vaihe dokumentoidaan standardien mukaan. These sentences illustrate how the form signals that documentation activities are to be carried out according to established standards.

Notes and related terms: In standard Finnish, the more common passive form is dokumentoidaan, used for the same purpose of indicating documentation activity. Dokumentoidaan may appear in certain texts, registers, or stylistic variants where the stem is rendered with a slightly different orthography. Related concepts include dokumentointi (the act or discipline of documentation) and dokumentointi- ja arkistointiprosessit in data governance and compliance contexts.