tehtävillä

Tehtävillä is a Finnish plural adessive form of the noun tehtävä, meaning task or assignment. It denotes the location or context of multiple tasks, roughly translating to “on the tasks” or “at the tasks” in English when used in sentences. The form is part of Finnish’s rich case system, where the adessive marks location or state in relation to a plural noun.

In terms of morphology, tehtävä is the singular form. The plural nominative is tehtävät. To form the adessive plural, the ending -llä is added to the plural stem, producing tehtävillä. Other plural forms for tehtävä include the genitive tehtävien and the partitive tehtäviä. The adessive plural is commonly used to talk about where tasks are located, where they are being performed, or in broader contexts that describe the state or set of tasks.

Usage notes indicate that tehtävillä appears most often in written Finnish, such as instructional texts, checklists, project planning documents, and educational material. It tends to be used when referring to a group of tasks as a unit rather than a single task, and it contrasts with singular forms or other cases that focus on individuals or ownership.

Related terms include tehtävä (task), tehtävät (tasks, plural nominative), and tehtävälista (task list). The word is part of everyday educational and administrative language in Finnish, where precise case forms help indicate the relationship between tasks and their context. See also Finnish noun cases and general Finnish grammar references for further details.