Tehtävässä

Tehtävässä is the inessive singular form of the Finnish noun tehtävä, which broadly means task, duty, assignment, or role. The word can refer to a concrete piece of work that has to be done, or more commonly to the function or position a person holds within an organization. As a grammatical form, tehtävässä corresponds to “in the task” or “in the position/role,” depending on the context.

In practice, tehtävässä is used to indicate being located inside a task context or occupying a particular duty or role. It often appears in expressions about a person’s responsibilities in a job or public office. The form is related to other inflections of tehtävä, such as tehtävässäsi (in your task/position), tehtävässään (in his/her/its task or position), and tehtävissä (in tasks or roles, plural).

Usage notes:

- When referring to a person’s current role within an organization, tehtävässä highlights the state of being in that role. Example: Hän on nyt tehtäessään vastuussa projektin johtamisesta. (He is currently in his role responsible for leading the project.)

- When discussing a specific assignment or duty, the sense is more about the context or scope of that duty rather than a physical location.

Related terms include rooli (role), virka or virallinen tehtävä (official post/office), and vastuu (responsibility). Tehtävässä contrasts with forms describing actions (tehtää, tehdä) and other case forms used for different grammatical purposes.