Kuluttajilla

Kuluttajilla is the adessive plural form of kuluttaja, the Finnish word for consumer. In practice, kuluttajilla functions to refer to the group of consumers and is used in sentences to indicate the consumer side as the recipient or possessive in various contexts. The base noun kuluttaja refers to a person who purchases goods or services for personal use; kuluttajat is the nominative plural, while kuluttajilla marks the plural adessive form.

In Finnish public discourse and law, kuluttajilla is commonly used to discuss rights, protections, and obligations of consumers as a group. Phrases such as “Kuluttajilla on oikeus saada tietoa” (Consumers have the right to receive information) or “Kuluttajilla on oikeus peruuttaa sopimus” (Consumers have the right to cancel a contract) exemplify its use in regulatory texts, guidelines, and consumer advisories. The form helps distinguish the consumer side from producers, retailers, or service providers within legislative and policy language.

Finnish consumer organizations, including Kuluttajaliitto, advocate for kuluttajilla’s interests and provide guidance on rights, remedies, and complaint procedures. The term also appears in European Union-related materials translated into Finnish, reflecting directives intended to harmonize and protect consumer rights across member states.

As a linguistic form, kuluttajilla is not a proper noun; it is a grammatical rendering of “consumers” that appears in contexts where the group is the indirect object, the location, or the possessor in a clause, depending on the sentence structure.