Ennakkoista
Ennakkoista is a Finnish inflected form derived from the noun ennakko, with the sense of something that is in or of the advance. In practice, ennakkoista is most commonly encountered in contexts referring to things that are provided, required, or understood in advance. The word is widely used in business, administration, and planning language, where discussions about payments, information, or terms are framed as “ennakkoista” in relation to the corresponding noun.
Two broad senses are typical in everyday use:
- Financial or contractual: ennakkoista maksua or ennakkoista maksamista refers to payments made in advance or upfront
- Information and planning: ennakkoista tietoa or ennakkoista suunnittelua conveys information or planning elements that are preliminary
- Ennakkoista usually appears with a following noun in a case that requires partitive or a similar
- The form is productive in formal Finnish and frequent in documents, contracts, and negotiations, but it
Related terms include ennakko (the base noun meaning advance or prepayment) and ennakkoiset, an adjective form
See also: ennakko, ennakkoiset, Finnish grammar on inflection and partitive usage.