Valitusta

Valitusta is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun valitus, which means a complaint, appeal, or formal objection—particularly in legal, administrative, or bureaucratic contexts. As a grammatical form, valitusta does not carry a separate lexical meaning beyond valitus; it is used to mark the object in sentences where the reference is indefinite or incomplete, or after verbs that require the partitive case.

Etymology: It is formed by adding the partitive suffix -sta/-stä to valitus, in accordance with Finnish vowel harmony.

Usage: Valitusta appears in various constructions. Examples include: Valitusta ei ole vielä ratkaistu. (The complaint has not yet been resolved.) Valitusta koskeva päätös annettiin tänään. (A decision concerning the complaint was issued today.) Emme käsittele valitusta ennen viranomaisen lausuntoa. (We will not handle the complaint before the official statement.) In these examples, valitusta functions as a non-specified object rather than a definite, fully specified noun.

Related forms: The nominative valitus is the base form; the genitive is valituksen, the partitive is valitusta (plural valituksia). The term is common in legal or bureaucratic language and is often found in procedural phrases like valitusmenettely (the complaint procedure) and valitusohjeet (filing instructions).

See also: valitus, valitusmenettely, oikeudellinen valitus.