selvityksenä

Selvityksenä is a Finnish grammatical form, specifically the essive case of the noun selvitys. It expresses a state, role, or form of being and translates roughly as “as a clarification” or “as a report.”

The base word selvitys means clarification, explanation, report, or inventory. It comes from the verb selvittää, meaning “to clarify, to settle, to investigate.” The essive suffix -nä/-nä marks a temporary or role-based state, so selvityksenä literally means “in the form of a clarification” or “as a clarification/report.”

Usage of selvityksenä occurs mainly in formal, administrative, and legal language. It is used when information or a document is presented in a particular form or role, rather than as a final decision. It signals that what is described is an explanatory or reporting material. In practice, it may appear in sentences such as tiedot esitettiin selvityksenä (the data were presented as a clarification) or asiakirja toimitettiin selvityksenä liittyen tapauksen kulkuun (the document was sent as a clarification regarding the course of the case).

Relation to other terms: selvitys is the noun meaning clarification or report, while selvittäminen and selvittää are the related verb forms meaning to clarify or to investigate. The essive form selvityksenä is part of Finnish nominal morphology and is one of several ways to denote role or state in a sentence.

See also: selvitys, essive case, Finnish grammar.