Vastutusel

Vastutusel is an Estonian grammatical form used to indicate that someone or something bears responsibility for a matter or is under someone else’s oversight. It is the adessive singular form of the noun vastutus, which means responsibility or duty. The form is commonly found in formal, administrative, or legal language, where precise delineation of accountability is required.

In usage, vastutusel serves to mark the entity that holds responsibility in a given context. It helps clarify who is answerable for actions, outcomes, or decisions, and it can appear in contracts, policy documents, audits, and governmental or organizational reports. The construction is part of Estonian morphology and reflects how cases convey relationships of responsibility within sentences.

Related linguistic forms and phrases include vastutusele võtma, a verb construction meaning to take on or assume responsibility, and various compound expressions built from vastutus that describe duties, accountability, or ethical obligation. The concept is closely tied to the broader notion of responsibility (vastutus) in Estonian, including nuances of duty, obligation, and accountability in social and organizational contexts.

Vastutusel is primarily a grammatical and terminological tool for expressing responsibility in formal Estonian text. While it can appear in everyday language, its formal register is most common when precisely specifying who is responsible for a project, decision, or outcome.