sopimusta

Sopimusta is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun sopimus, meaning a contract or agreement. In Finnish, the partitive case is used in several common situations: to express an indefinite or partial quantity, to refer to a contract in a non-defined sense, or after certain verbs and constructions that take a partitive object. Therefore sopimusta appears when the speaker talks about a contract in a non-definite way or when emphasizing a portion or aspect of a contract.

In everyday and legal language, sopimusta occurs in phrases such as sopimusta koskevat ehdot (the terms regarding the contract) or in expressions describing action related to a contract. For example, Olen laatimassa sopimusta means I am drafting a contract. Sopimusta koskevat yksityiskohdat vaativat tarkistusta translates to the details concerning the contract require review. Another common usage is with negation or non-completion: En ole tehnyt sopimusta means I have not made/entered into a contract. The phrase Tarvitaan sopimusta can be used to say that a contract is needed.

Morphology and usage note: sopimusta refers to a single, non-specific contract in the partitive; the corresponding partitive plural is sopimuksia, used when talking about multiple non-defined contracts. The nominative form is sopimus (the contract or agreement used when referring to a specific, definite contract). The word stems from sopimus, which relates to sopia, to agree.

See also: sopimus, contract law, Finnish language grammar.