Tehtävällä

Tehtävällä is the adessive singular form of the Finnish noun tehtävä, which translates to task, assignment, or duty. In standard Finnish grammar, tehtävällä marks a location or means associated with the noun in clauses that require the adessive case. As a grammatical form of the common word tehtävä, tehtävällä appears in written and formal Finnish and is understood in contexts dealing with location or instrument related to a task.

Morphology and related forms: The base tehtävä takes the adessive suffix -lla to form tehtävällä. This follows regular Finnish suffixation and vowel harmony rules. The adessive form is used for singular nouns, while the plural adessive is tehtävillä. Other case forms of tehtävä include inessive tehtävässä and illative tehtävää, among others, each serving different grammatical purposes in sentences.

Usage and meaning: The adessive case, including tehtävällä, generally signals location on a surface, possession of a quality, or the means/instrument by which something is done, depending on the sentence. With tehtävä, tehtävällä can be used in contexts where the idea of “on/with a task” or “in relation to a task” is grammatically appropriate. In everyday speech, speakers may opt for other constructions to express related meanings, but tehtävällä remains a valid, if more specialized, form in written and formal Finnish.

Notes: Tehtävä as a word covers a broad range from simple assignments to duties or missions. The adessive form tehtävällä should be interpreted in light of the surrounding syntactic context, since Finnish case endings derive meaning from how they interact with other elements in the clause.