osoitetuille

Osoitetuille is a Finnish inflected form rather than a standalone lexical item. In Finnish, many words change shape depending on their grammatical role in a sentence, and osoitetuille appears as an inflected form used to indicate a recipient or addressee in formal or administrative contexts. The underlying bases that can give rise to this form are typically the noun osoite (address) or the past participle osoitettu (addressed), though the exact morphological path depends on the phrase in which it appears.

In usage, osoitetuille tends to occur in official, bureaucratic, or professionally oriented texts where the recipients or addressees of a communication are being specified. It functions to mark the indirect object or target group of an action, such as information, notices, or directives directed toward a particular set of people or entities. The precise interpretation—whether it refers to “to the addressees” or “to those who have been addressed”—depends on the surrounding verbs and nouns in the sentence.

Examples in practice are typically found in letters, notices, or legal documents where recipients are explicitly identified. Because Finnish relies on case endings rather than fixed prepositions to express relationships, forms like osoitetuille are common in formal prose and administrative language, while their use may vary with dialect and register.

See also: Finnish grammar, cases, allative, indirect object, administrative language.