osastolle

Osastolle is the allative case form of the Finnish noun osasto, commonly translated as "to the ward", "to the department" or "to the section". The allative case (ending -lle) denotes movement onto or toward the surface or location of something and is used to express direction toward places or recipients.

Osasto refers to a hospital ward, a department within an organization, or a sectional unit in various institutional contexts. As osastolle, the word appears in phrases indicating transfer or sending, for example: "Potilas siirrettiin osastolle" (The patient was transferred to the ward) or "Asiakirjat lähetettiin osastolle" (The documents were sent to the department).

In Finnish declension, common forms for osasto include nominative osasto, genitive osaston, partitive osastoa, illative osastoon, inessive osastossa, elative osastosta, allative osastolle, adessive osastolla and ablative osastolta. The distinction between allative (osastolle) and adessive (osastolla, meaning "at the ward") is important: osastolle implies movement toward, while osastolla indicates location.

The term is broadly used in medical, administrative and organizational language and follows regular Finnish morphophonological patterns for case marking.