tekijänä

Tekijänä is the essive form of the Finnish noun tekijä, meaning a maker, creator, or author. The word expresses a role or capacity: someone is acting in the capacity of a creator in a given situation. In practice, tekijänä is used to indicate who created or produced something or who holds the role of the creator in relation to a work or project. For example, teoksen tekijänä huo is "the author of the work" or "as the creator of the work." The phrase liittyy often with expressions such as toimia tekijänä (to act as a creator) or olla tekijänä (to be the creator in a given context).

Grammar and formation: tekijä forms the base noun, and the essive case is formed by adding the suffix -nä/-nä, producing tekijänä. This form marks a temporary state or role, roughly corresponding to the English "as" in role-denoting contexts. The suffix follows standard Finnish vowel harmony rules, yielding tekijänä from tekijä.

Usage notes: Tekijänä is commonly used in academic, literary, and media contexts to identify authorship or production. It can refer to individuals or organizational contributors who created a work, a piece of art, a program, or any produced item. It contrasts with the nominative tekijä, which simply denotes the creator, and with other case forms that denote different grammatical functions. In many cases, the structure teoksen tekijänä explicitly anchors authorship to a specific work.

See also: tekijä, essive case, Finnish grammar on case usage.