käsitteenään
Käsitteenään is a Finnish expression meaning “as a concept” and is used to mark how something is treated or framed in discourse. It signals that the upcoming or surrounding material should be understood in a conceptual, rather than a purely empirical, sense. In practice, käsitteenään positions a term, idea, or framework as the basis for interpretation or analysis within a sentence or passage.
The form is built from the noun käsite (concept). In Finnish, the word can appear in various
Käsitteenään is typically found in academic writing, philosophy, linguistics, and other theoretical fields where authors discuss