laitattoman

Laitattoman is a Finnish grammatical form that functions within adjective-noun constructions rather than as a separate concept. It is the genitive singular form of the adjective laitaton, which means illegal or unlawful. In Finnish, when an adjective modifies a noun in a genitive construction, the adjective can take a form such as laitattoman to agree with the head noun.

The primary use of laitattoman appears in formal, legal, or descriptive contexts where one wants to express that the associated noun relates to illegality. For example, phrases like laittoman teon seuraamukset or laittoman toiminnan luonne illustrate the idea of “the consequences of an illegal act” or “the nature of illegal activity.” In such phrases, laitattoman signals possession or association with illegality.

Because laitattoman is a specialized inflection, it is relatively uncommon outside legal, academic, or careful literary writing. In everyday Finnish, speakers more often rely on simpler predicates or different constructions to convey illegality, choosing the base adjectives and noun phrases without the genitive-facing form.

See also: laiton, laitonta, laitton (forms related to the concept of illegality in Finnish), genitive constructions in Finnish, Finnish adjective inflection.