Vuosittainen

Vuosittainen is a Finnish adjective meaning annual or yearly. It is used to describe events, reports, plans, or statistics that occur or are produced once per year. The term is common in formal, governmental, and business contexts, for example in phrases such as vuosittainen tilinpäätös (annual financial statement) or vuosittainen tapahtuma (annual event).

Etymology and formation: The word is formed from vuosi, meaning year, together with the productive suffix -ittainen, which creates adjectives signaling a relation or characteristic. This formation yields a straightforward way to express that something is tied to or repeated each year.

Usage and common collocations: Vuosittainen is frequently used with nouns in official or organizational contexts. Examples include vuosittainen raportti (annual report), vuosittainen tarkastus (annual inspection), and vuosittaiset tavoitteet (annual goals). The corresponding adverb is vuosittain, which describes actions done on a yearly basis, such as “organizing events vuosittain.”

Inflection and grammar: In Finnish, adjectives agree with the noun in number and case. Base form: vuosittainen (nominative singular). Genitive singular: vuosittaisen. Nominative plural: vuosittaiset. Partitive plural: vuosittaisia. The adjective typically precedes the noun it modifies, for example vuosittainen tilaisuus (an annual event).

See also: vuosi, vuotuinen (another Finnish term sometimes used to mean annual in different contexts), vuosittain (adverb meaning annually).