Kuvaajina

Kuvaajina is a Finnish word that forms the plural essive case of kuvaaja, meaning "photographers." The essive case marks a temporary state or role, roughly comparable to the English prepositional phrase "as a" or "as photographers." Consequently, kuvaajana translates to "as a photographer" and kuvaajina translates to "as photographers" or "in the capacity of photographers." The form is used in contexts such as credits, captions, job descriptions, or reportage when referring to a group of people by function.

Morphology and usage: The base noun is kuvaaja (photographer). The singular essive form is kuvaajana; the plural essive form is kuvaajina. In Finnish, the essive expresses role or state rather than a fixed prepositional phrase, and it can interact with different sentence structures depending on formality and register.

Examples of contexts include announcements of a team’s composition, descriptions in articles, or captions that specify who performed a particular photographic task. The word is closely related to its root noun kuvaaja and to the broader concept of the essive case in Finnish grammar.

See also: kuvaaja, essive case, Finnish grammar.