pakollisen

Pakollisen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective pakollinen, meaning obligatory or compulsory. The adjective describes something that is required by rules, law, or policy, such as a course, duty, or action. The root derives from pakko, obligation, with the derivational suffix -llinen that forms adjectives indicating “characterized by.”

In Finnish, adjectives decline like nouns. Pakollinen has various inflected forms; in the genitive singular it becomes pakollisen (e.g., pakollisen kurssin suorittaminen – the completion of the mandatory course). In the nominative singular, it is pakollinen; in the partitive singular, pakollista; in the plural forms, pakolliset, and the genitive plural pakollisten. This pattern is typical for adjectives that modify nouns in different cases.

Common uses include education and administration. Example phrases: “pakolliset kurssit” (compulsory courses), “pakollisen kurssin suorittaminen” (the completion of the required course). It is often contrasted with “vapaaehtoinen” (voluntary). The term also appears in legal or policy language to indicate obligatory conditions or duties.

Because pakollisen is a case inflection of an adjective, it is not typically used as a stand-alone noun. The form occurs inside noun phrases where the noun is in genitive, or where the phrase as a whole is in a sentence in another case.