ajantasaiseen

Ajantasaiseen is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective ajantasainen, meaning up-to-date or current. It represents the illative singular form, used when the modified noun is in the illative case, indicating movement toward or direction to something up-to-date. For example, ajantasaiseen tietoon means into or toward up-to-date information.

Usage and context

Ajantasaiseen is common in formal Finnish, especially in science, technology, research reporting, journalism, and policy writing, where references to current information are important. It typically appears in phrases such as ajantasaiseen tietoon perustuva analyysi, meaning an analysis based on up-to-date information, or ajantasaiseen dataan viittaava raportti, meaning a report referring to current data.

Morphology and related forms

Ajantasaiseen is one form of ajantasainen; other forms include ajantasainen (base form), ajantasaisuus (up-to-dateness), and ajantasaisesti (adverbial form). The illative form ajantasaiseen is one of several grammatical case forms that adjectives in -ainen can take, and it does not represent a separate lexical item from ajantasainen.

Etymology and meaning

Ajantasainen is generally understood as a compound related to ajan, meaning time, and tasainen, meaning even or level, or as linked to the idiom ajan tasalla, meaning “up to date.” The adjective denotes something that is current, timely, or in step with the present time. The illative form ajantasaiseen simply adapts this meaning to a noun in the illative case.

See also

ajantasainen, ajantasaisuus, ajantasaisesti, ajan tasalla, up-to-date.