Tehtävin

Tehtävin is a Finnish term derived from the noun tehtävä, meaning task or assignment. In contemporary Finnish, tehtävin is not a commonly used everyday form, but it appears in more formal or archaic contexts and in dictionaries as a derivative of tehtävä. The exact interpretation can vary with context, and in many modern texts the more usual expressions like tehtävät (tasks) or tehtäviä (to-do items) are preferred.

Usage and meaning

Tehtävin is typically associated with phrases that refer to things that remain to be done or to items in a list of assignments. It can function as a modifier in compound phrases or appear in headings where the intention is to indicate tasks that should be completed. Because Finnish has many inflectional forms, the same root can yield several related meanings, so tehtävin is best understood through its surrounding language and the overall sentence structure. In everyday Finnish, more common alternatives such as tehtävät or tehtäviä varten are often used to express similar ideas.

Context and examples

In educational or organizational writing, tehtävin may appear in more formal registers or older texts as part of lists or instructions. For example, a document might refer to “tehtävin seuraavat kohteet,” signaling that the following items are to be addressed. In most current writing, however, writers would typically replace tehtävin with tehtävät or present the items more directly as a numbered list of tasks.

See also

Finnish language; tehtävä; tehtävät; tehtäviä; to-do list; language registers.