Rakennusvuotena

Rakennusvuotena is a Finnish linguistic form derived from the compound noun rakennusvuosi, meaning the year a building was constructed. It is the essive case form (suffix -na/-nä) used to express “as the year of construction” rather than simply naming the year.

The term appears mainly in Finnish property descriptions, architectural histories, cadastral records, and real estate listings, particularly in forms or catalog entries where the year is given as a descriptor. A typical usage is Rakennusvuotena 1982, which signals that the building’s construction year is 1982. In everyday speech and more general writing, people commonly use rakennusvuosi or simply state the year (for example, “rakennettu vuonna 1982”) rather than the essive form.

Grammatical note: Finnish uses the essive case to denote the role or state of something. Therefore, rakennusvuotena denotes the year in the capacity of “the year of construction.” It is not a separate concept from rakennusvuosi but a specific inflected form preferred in certain contexts, such as labels, tables, or descriptive sentences.

In English-language summaries or translations, the closest equivalents are “as the year of construction” or, more informally, “year of construction.” The use of rakennusvuotena is largely limited to Finnish-language texts and formal descriptions, and its appearance depends on typographic or catalog conventions rather than everyday speech.