tarjoajiin

Tarjoajiin is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the noun tarjoaja, meaning provider or supplier. In everyday use, tarjoaja refers to a person or organization that offers goods or services or that may submit a bid in a procurement process. Tarjoajiin, by contrast, is the illative plural form of tarjoaja and is used in formal contexts to indicate direction toward the group of providers or bidders, often in procedural or legal texts.

Grammatically, tarjoaja is an agent noun formed from the verb tarjota (to offer) with the suffix -ja/-jä. The plural nominative is tarjoajat, and the corresponding illative plural is tarjoajiin. The illative plural is relatively rare in ordinary speech and is primarily found in specialized language, especially in procurement or regulatory documents where actions are described as directed at or entering the space of the bidders.

Usage and nuance: in procurement and legal writing, tarjoajiin may appear when describing actions that concern the group of bidders as a collective. In common practice, however, the more typical recipient form is tarjoajille, meaning “to the bidders.” This reflects Finnish usage patterns where the recipient or direction is often expressed with the allative case rather than the illative in such contexts.

Etymology and related terms: the word is built from tarjoaja and tar jo ta, with the agent suffix -ja and the illative plural ending -iin. Related terms include tarjoaja (provider), tarjous (bid/offer), and hankinta (procurement).