ohjeitaan

Ohjeitaan is a Finnish noun phrase meaning “their instructions,” used to refer to instructions or guidelines belonging to a group, person, or organization. It is formed from the root ohje, meaning instruction or guideline, combined with possessive and plural suffixes that mark ownership by a third-person plural possessor.

In use, ohjeitaan appears in contexts where it is important to indicate that the instructions originate from or pertain to a particular group. It is common in manuals, safety guidelines, or procedural documents to discuss how a group’s instructions should be followed or interpreted. For example, Käyttäjät noudattivat ohjeitaan. (The users followed their instructions.) Another example could be Yritys julkaisi ohjeitaan uuden tuotteen mukana. (The company published its/their instructions with the new product.)

The form is one of several related constructions built from ohje. Otherpossessive forms include ohjeensa (his/her or its instruction) in singular possession and ohjeet (instructions) as the basic plural noun. Ohjeitaan specifically signals that the reference is to multiple instructions or guidelines owned by or issued by a plural subject. Translation and nuance may vary with context, particularly when the subject is a company, institution, or group rather than an individual.

In summary, ohjeitaan functions as a grammatical tool to attribute a set of guidelines to a plural agent, commonly encountered in technical, legal, and organizational texts where authors want to distinguish whose instructions are being discussed.