Tehtävään

Tehtävään is the illative case form of the Finnish noun tehtävä, which means a task, assignment, or duty. Illative forms in Finnish indicate movement toward or into something, so tehtävään can be interpreted as “into a task” or “to a task.” It is used when describing entering into a task, taking on a responsibility, or directing action toward completing a task.

Form and morphology: The noun tehtävä serves as the base form meaning “task.” The illative suffix adds to this stem to produce tehtävään, the form used in sentences that express direction toward performing a task or engaging with it. Finnish morphology regularly uses illative forms with different stems, and tehtävään is the standard illative for tehtävä.

Usage and context: Tehtävään appears in formal, educational, administrative, and instructional language. It describes scenarios in which someone moves toward or commits to a task, starts working on a task, or considers task-related matters. It can function in phrases that discuss task-related relations, assignment boundaries, or the transition into a role or duty associated with a task.

Related forms: Other grammatical cases of tehtävä include tehtävän (genitive), tehtävänä (essive), and tehtävää (partitive). These forms serve different syntactic functions while sharing the core meaning related to a task or duty. The illative tehtävään contrasts with non-illative forms when indicating direction toward performing or engaging with the task.

See also: tehtävä, illatiivi (illative), Finnish grammar.