Ehdollisen

Ehdollisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective ehdollinen, meaning conditional or subject to a condition. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify, so ehdollisen appears when the accompanying noun is in the genitive case or when forming possessive-type phrases such as a part of a larger noun phrase.

In practice, ehdollisen is used in contexts where something is contingent on meeting certain requirements or conditions. It is common in legal and administrative language, for example in phrases like ehdollisen vapautuksen (the conditional release) or ehdollisen tuomion (a conditional sentence or verdict). The base form ehdollinen is used before nominative nouns, while ehdollisen marks the related noun’s genitive relationship within the phrase.

Etymology and related forms: ehdollinen derives from the noun ehto, meaning condition, with the general Finnish adjective-forming suffix -llinen. The adverbial form is ehdollisesti, meaning “conditionally.” The opposite concept is often expressed with the word ehdoton or phrases that indicate an unconditional status.

Usage notes: The term is most frequently encountered in formal registers, such as law, governance, and official documents. As with other Finnish adjectives, ehdollisen itself carries no independent meaning beyond qualifying the noun, and its exact inflection depends on the noun it accompanies. Examples of typical collocations include ehdollisen vapautuksen ehdot and ehdollisen vankeuden vaikutukset.