Vuokrakuluina

Vuokrakuluina is the essive plural form of the Finnish noun vuokrakulu, meaning rental cost. It is used to express a state or role of costs in budgets, financial statements, or similar contexts, translating roughly to “as rental costs” or “in the form of rental costs.” The essive case describes a temporary state or function, so vuokrakuluina appears when discussing costs categorized or presented as rental-related expenses.

In practical use, vuokrakuluina is most common in accounting and budgeting language, where costs are classified or reported as rental expenses. It contrasts with the more general term vuokrakulut, which simply denotes rental costs as a category without specifying the grammatical role. Vuokrakuluina tends to appear in clauses that describe how costs are recorded or presented, rather than in everyday speech.

Examples:

- Tilinpäätöksessä erät jaettiin vuokrakuluina. (In the financial statements, the items were divided as rental costs.)

- Hankkeen kustannukset kirjattiin vuokrakuluina. (The project expenses were recorded as rental costs.)

Notes:

- Vuokrakuluina is not typically used to name a standalone budget line; rather, it indicates the classification or role of the costs within a sentence.

- Related terms include vuokrakulut (rental costs) and kustannukset (expenses), with vuokrakulut used for the general concept and vuokrakuluina for grammatical role in context.

See also: vuokrakulut, kustannukset, kirjanpito, taloushallinto.