rajoitteilla

Rajoitteilla is the plural adessive form of the Finnish noun rajoite, meaning restriction or limitation. It translates roughly as “with restrictions” or “under restrictions” and is used in formal or administrative language to describe constraints that affect a person, plan, or process. The adessive case signals the state, condition, or circumstances surrounding what is being described.

Grammar and formation: The base noun is rajoite. The plural nominative is ra joitte et; to form the plural adessive you use ra joitte ill a. Thus rajoitteilla literally means “on/with the restrictions” as a circumstance. It is common in official prose to convey that something operates under specified limits or conditions.

Usage: Rajoitteilla appears in contexts such as policy, planning, budgeting, and regulations, where actions are described as occurring under existing constraints. It is often preferable to expressions like “rajoitteiden mukaan” (according to the restrictions) or “rajoitteiden alaisena” (under the restrictions), but rajoitteilla remains a concise option in certain style guides or formal sentences. Example sentences include: “Hanke toteutetaan rajoitteilla,” meaning the project is carried out under restrictions; and “Toiminta on rajoitteiden alaisena,” meaning the activity is under the restrictions.

Related terms: rajoite (restriction), rajoitus (limitation or regulation), and the verb rajoittaa (to restrict). In practice, rajoitteilla is most often encountered in written Finnish and legal or administrative registers, where precise phrasing about constraints is required.