Tarkastajan

Tarkastajan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun tarkastaja, which means inspector, examiner, or auditor. The base tarkastaja comes from tarkastaa, to inspect, with the agentive suffix -aja. In Finnish, tarkastajan is used to indicate possession or association, as in tarkastajan raportti (the inspector’s report) or tarkastajan tehtävät (the inspector’s duties).

Morphology and related forms: The nominative singular is tarkastaja. The plural nominative is tarkastajat, while the genitive plural is tarkastajien. The genitive singular, tarkastajan, is the focus of this form. Other related cases include tarkastajaa (partitive singular) and various inflected forms used in connective or descriptive phrases. This system allows Tarkastajan to function in phrases that attribute actions, duties, or attributes to the inspector.

Usage and contexts: Tarkastajan commonly appears in official, administrative, or regulatory language, including safety inspections, quality control, auditing, and law enforcement contexts. It denotes possession or attribution, for example in phrases like tarkastajan valtuudet (the inspector’s powers), tarkastajan raportointi (the inspector’s reporting), or in descriptions of duties assigned to a specific inspector.

Etymology and overview: Tarkastaja is built from tarkka (careful, precise) with the agentive suffix -aja, plus the noun tarkastus meaning inspection. The genitive tarkastajan is a standard grammatical form used to express ownership or association with an inspector within Finnish syntax.