Rasituksena

Rasituksena is a Finnish word that functions as a form of the noun rasitus, meaning burden, load, or strain. In this usage, rasituksena conveys the sense of something being considered or acting “as a burden” in a given context. The form is common in formal and technical language, including policy analysis, economics, ergonomics, and administrative writing.

In practice, rasituksena is used to describe how a cost, obligation, or strain is experienced by a person, group, or system. For example, phrases such as “kustannukset ovat rasituksena kunnalle” (the costs are a burden to the municipality) or “rasituksena työntekijöille” (as a burden on the employees) illustrate its function of marking burden from the perspective of the affected party. The construction is typically found in neutral, analytical prose, where the speaker or writer is assessing impact.

Origin and form: rasitus (burden, load, strain) yields various case forms in Finnish. Rasituksena represents one of these inflected forms used to express “as a burden” within a sentence. It is part of the broader Finnish system that uses case endings and the essive/translative family of forms to articulate states, roles, or comparisons.

See also: rasitus, Finnish grammar, essive case, translative case.