kehotukseen

Kehotus is a Finnish noun that denotes urging, exhortation, or a prompt to act. The form kehotukseen is the illative singular, used to indicate movement toward or engagement with an exhortation, or to describe acting in response to one.

Morphology and related forms: Kehotus comes from the verb kehottaa, meaning to urge or exhort. Its nominative singular is kehotus, genitive kehotuksen, illative kehotukseen, and partitive kehotusta. The illative kehotukseen is common in sentences that express responding to or acting on the urging, such as “vastata kehotukseen” (to respond to the exhortation) or “toimia kehotukseen nähden.”

Usage and nuances: Kehotus is typically found in formal, administrative, or public-language contexts and describes encouragement or urging rather than a strict command. It is softer than käsky (order) and closer in tone to ohje (instruction) or suositus (recommendation). The choice between kehotus and related terms hinges on the degree of obligation and politeness conveyed.

Examples:

- Viranomaiset antoivat kehotuksen noudattaa uusia ohjeita. (The authorities issued an exhortation to follow the new guidelines.)

- Vastaan kehotukseen ottaa lisätietoja. (I respond to the exhortation to provide additional information.)

- Mikäli kehotukseen ei reagoida, voidaan ryhtyä muihin toimenpiteisiin. (If the exhortation is not acted upon, other measures may be taken.)

Kehotus and kehotukseen thus function as a linguistic tool to refer to encouraging guidance, typically within non-coercive or formal communication.