Vastaanottavina

Vastaanottavina is a Finnish inflected form of the present active participle vastanottava, and it functions as a plural essive (the form used to express “in the role of” or “as”). It denotes the state or function of being recipients or receivers, and is used to describe people or parties that act in the capacity of receiving something.

In practice, vastaanottavina is used in contexts where the role of the involved parties as recipients is being stated or specified. The form agrees with a plural subject and is commonly found in formal, legal, or administrative language. It conveys a sense of role rather than ongoing action, distinguishing it from the present participle form or other participial phrases.

Examples of usage include sentences where multiple entities are identified as recipients in a given arrangement or document. For instance, a contract might state that “osapuolet mainitaan vastaanottavina osapuolina,” meaning that the parties are named as the recipients or receiving parties. Another example could be, “Hankkeeseen osallistuvat organisaatiot toimivat vastaanottavina osapuolina,” indicating the organizations act as recipients in the context described.

Etymologically, vastaanottavina comes from vastaanottava (receiving) with the essive suffix -na/-nä and the plural ending, signaling a simultaneous role for more than one entity. Related forms include singular essive vastaanottavana and the present active participle vastaanottava, which have distinct uses in different syntactic contexts.