lakkaaminen

Lakkaaminen is a Finnish noun formed from the verb lakata. It most commonly denotes the act or process of stopping, ceasing, or coming to an end. In everyday usage it describes intransitive cessation (for example, "sateen lakkaaminen" — the stopping of rain) and is used broadly for the end of activities, processes or states.

In administrative and legal contexts lakkaaminen can refer to the termination or discontinuation of services, operations, organizations or legal statuses, often used neutrally to describe an outcome without implying who initiated the change. The related causative noun lakkauttaminen denotes deliberate abolition or closure by an agent and is distinguished from lakkaaminen’s typically intransitive sense.

Less commonly, lakkaaminen may refer to the application of lacquer or varnish (from a different sense of the verb lakata), meaning the act of coating a surface with lacquer. Context usually makes clear which meaning is intended.

Grammatically, lakkaaminen is a deverbal nominalization formed with the productive -minen suffix and inflects like other Finnish action nouns. It appears in collocations such as työn lakkaaminen, toiminnan lakkaaminen and lääkkeen käytön lakkaaminen. The word should not be confused with lakka (cloudberry), which is an unrelated noun.