menettelyltään

Menettelyltään is a Finnish term used to describe the procedural aspect of something. It is formed from the noun menettely (procedure, handling) and the suffix -ltään, which marks perspective or facet, roughly translating to “in terms of the procedure” or “procedurally.” The expression is used to indicate how something was conducted rather than what was achieved.

In practice, menettelyltään is common in legal, administrative, and academic texts where readers need to distinguish the manner of proceeding from the substantive outcome. It often accompanies adjectives describing the quality of process, for example: “Päätös on menettelyltään asianmukainen” (The decision is procedurally appropriate), or “menettelyltään epäasianmukainen käsittely” (procedurally improper handling). It can also modify nouns or clauses to compare different processes, e.g., “menettelyltään nopea ratkaisu” (a procedurally swift/expedient solution).

Grammatically, -ltään serves to express a viewpoint about the procedure; it is used with nouns and adjectives and colors the statement with a procedural assessment without itself changing the main predicate’s tense.

Related terms include menettely (procedure) and phrases like “menettelyn mukaan” (according to the procedure). The expression is primarily found in formal registers and is valued for precision in describing how processes are carried out rather than their outcomes.