tehokasta

Tehokasta is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective tehokas, which means efficient or effective. The word is used to describe actions, processes, or things that achieve desired results with relatively little waste of time, effort, or resources. It is a common descriptor in business, engineering, education, and everyday speech.

In Finnish grammar, tehokas derives from teho, meaning power or effect, through the suffix -kas. Tehokasta is used with nouns in the partitive case, as in phrases like tehokasta palvelua (efficient service) or tehokasta työtä (efficient work). Other inflected forms include tehokkaan (genitive singular), tehokkaat (nominative plural), and tehokkaita (partitive plural). The adverbial form is tehokkaasti, used to modify verbs, as in toimia tehokkaasti (to operate efficiently). The comparative and superlative forms are tehokkaampi and tehokkain, respectively.

Common usages and nuances: tehokasta can describe tangible outcomes, processes, or capabilities that produce good results with controlled resources. It often appears in business targets, performance reports, and quality discussions. While tehokas conveys high performance, it can carry either neutral or evaluative nuance depending on context, similar to English “efficient” or “effective.”

See also: tehokkuus (efficiency), tehostaminen (intensification), vaikuttava (impressive), tuloksellinen (productive).