oikeuksilla

Oikeuksilla is the adessive plural form of the Finnish noun oikeus, a word with senses including law, a right or entitlement, and justice. In the adessive plural, oikeuksilla expresses location or means related to a plural noun group, and it is used when referring to rights as a collective resource or attribute. The form appears in formal and written Finnish, particularly in legal, political, or scholarly contexts.

In usage, oikeuksilla is most common in phrases where rights are treated as a resource that can be accessed, protected, or defined within a system. It often appears together with other plural nouns such as perusoikeudet (fundamental rights) or ihmisoikeudet (human rights). For example, sentences might convey that certain rights protect or guarantee other conditions or freedoms, using oikeuksilla to indicate the means or basis for protection. The construction is less typical in everyday conversational Finnish, where other cases or forms (such as oikeudet in the nominative or oikeuksien in the genitive) are more common.

Examples of the construction include: “Perusoikeuksilla turvataan jokaisen oikeuksia” (Fundamental rights safeguard everyone’s rights) and “Ihmisoikeuksilla taataan ihmisarvo ja vapaus” (With human rights, human dignity and freedom are guaranteed). These illustrate how oikeuksilla functions to anchor statements to the rights-based framework of law and ethics.

See also: oikeus, oikeudet, perusoikeudet, ihmisoikeudet.