keräyksen

Keräyksen is a Finnish noun that refers to the act or process of gathering or collecting. It is most commonly used to describe organized efforts to gather donations for a cause, such as a fundraising campaign, but can also denote the collection of items, data, or works in a museum or library context. In everyday language, keräys can describe both monetary campaigns and physical collections.

The word is derived from the verb kerätä, meaning to collect or gather. The base form is keräys, and the genitive form is keräyksen, used to indicate ownership or the object of the collection (for example, keräyksen kohde, the target of the collection). The plural form is keräykset.

Common usages include rahankeräys or varainkeräys for fundraising efforts that seek financial donations, often organized by charities, associations, or religious groups. Keräys campaigns typically specify the purpose of the funds and require reporting on the collected totals. Outside the fundraising sense, keräys can describe collecting items for a project, a library or museum’s acquisition drive, or the accumulation of a set of works.

In Finnish discourse, keräys is a neutral term that covers both charitable fundraising and general collection activity. Context and modifiers usually clarify which sense is intended, such as indicating the cause, the type of collection, or the organizing body.