aastapõhiselt

Aastapõhiselt is Estonian for “on an annual basis” or “yearly.” It is used to describe actions, calculations, or allocations that are made per calendar year. The term is common in official, financial, and statistical texts where it is important to distinguish annual basis from total project duration or other timeframes.

The word is formed from the noun aasta (year) and the adverbial suffix -põhiselt, conveying the sense of doing something on the basis of a year. In practice, aastapõhiselt appears in contexts such as budgeting, reporting, and the distribution of funding, where amounts or responsibilities are recalculated or renewed each year.

Examples of usage include: “Toetust makstakse aastapõhiselt: iga aasta eest eraldatakse kindel summa,” and “Aruanded esitatakse aastapõhiselt iga eelarveaasta lõpus.” The term emphasizes an annual cycle for payments, revenues, or evaluations, rather than a one-time or overall duration.

Aastapõhiselt is a formal or technical alternative to more common time phrases like “aastas” or “iga-aastaselt.” It is often preferred in administrative language to indicate that procedures or financial planning are structured around each year independently. The related adjective form aastapõhjaline describes something based on or calculated on an annual basis, while aastapõhiselt functions as the corresponding adverb.