asutukselle

Asutukselle is the allative singular form of the Finnish noun asutus, meaning settlement, habitation, or housing. In Finnish grammar, the allative case marks direction toward a place, indicating motion or transfer toward that destination. Therefore asutukselle translates roughly as “to the settlement” or “toward the settlement.”

The word asutus refers to a populated area, which can denote a town, village, housing area, or a broader concept of a living community within a region. Asutukselle is commonly used in formal or technical contexts such as urban planning, land-use planning, cadastral descriptions, or infrastructure documents, where the destination or target of a project, service, or route is specified. It is less frequent in everyday speech, where simpler constructions or other cases (e.g., illative or inessive) might be used instead.

Morphology and related forms: asutus is the base noun; its forms change with case endings. The allative form asutukselle highlights a destination. Related forms include asutuksessa (in the settlement) for the inessive or asutus, asutuksen (genitive), and illative forms such as asutukseen (into the settlement). These variations are part of Finnish case system used to indicate location, direction, and possession in specific contexts.

Examples:

- Tie johtaa asutukselle. (The road leads to the settlement.)

- Hanke suunnataan asutukselle tarkoitetulle alueelle. (The project is directed toward the area designated for settlement.)

See also: asutus, asutusalue, Finnish grammar, allative case.