Osoitteena

Osoitteena is the essive form of the Finnish noun osoite, meaning “address.” It denotes the role or function of something as an address, i.e., something that acts as a contact point such as a postal address, email address, or website URL. In Finnish grammar the essive case expresses a state or role, roughly corresponding to the English “as” in phrases like “as an address.”

Usage of osoitteena occurs mainly in formal or descriptive contexts, particularly in documents, forms, or sentences that specify what serves as the contact address. It answers the question of what is being used as the address. For example, you can say that a website’s address is used in a given context, or that a company’s contact information is provided as the address.

Examples:

- Verkkosivun osoitteena on https://example.com. (The website address is https://example.com.)

- Yrityksen yhteystiedot osoitteena käytetään postiosoitetta 00100 Helsinki. (The company’s contact information uses the postal address 00100 Helsinki as the address.)

- Kyselyyn vastataan osoitteena sähköpostiosoite [email protected]. (Responses to the survey are sent to the email address [email protected].)

Etymology and related forms:

Osoitteena is formed from osoite (address) plus the essive suffix -na/-nä. Other related case forms of osoite include genitive (osoitteen), partitive (osoitetta), and illative/translative variations for different grammatical functions.