laajenemisenä

Laajenemisenä is a Finnish grammatical form: the essive case of the noun laajeneminen, meaning expansion. It expresses “as expansion” or “in the capacity of expansion,” and is used to describe a state or role that something assumes during expansion. In Finnish, the essive is formed with the suffix -na/-nä on the appropriate stem, so laajenemisenä literally means “as expansion.”

In usage, laajenemisenä appears in formal or technical texts, such as planning, policy, or academic writing, to characterize a function, state, or purpose during an expansion process. It is often found in phrases that describe what something is being used for or how it is functioning within the broader context of growth or enlargement. The form can be contrasted with other cases of laajeneminen, such as laajenemisen (genitive, indicating possession or partitive relationships) or laajenemiseksi (translative, indicating “to become expansion”).

Examples of usage are typically found in policy documents or analyses. For instance, a sentence might read that a project “toimii laajenemisenä toimenpiteenä alueen talouskasvun edistämiseksi,” meaning that the project acts as an expansion-related measure to promote regional economic growth. Another example could be “laajenemisenä osana kaupungin kehittämisstrategiaa,” which describes a role within a city’s development strategy.

Compared with other essive forms, laajenemisenä emphasizes the role or state of expansion itself rather than a completed action or a future transformation. Its use tends to be more common in formal discourse than in everyday conversation. See also Finnish grammar and the essive case for related forms and uses.