tekijän
Tekijän is the genitive singular form of tekijä, a Finnish noun meaning creator, maker, or author. The term refers to the person who creates or originates something, such as a work of art, a piece of writing, a musical composition, or an invention. In everyday language, tekijä and tekijäin forms are used to discuss authorship and responsibility for a creation.
In linguistic and legal contexts, tekijä is commonly paired with possessive or attributive phrases. For example,
In copyright law and related discussions, the term foregrounds the creator as the holder of authorship rights.
Etymologically, tekijä is formed with the agent suffix -jä from the verb tehdä, “to do/make,” yielding a
See also: tekijä, tekijänoikeudet, tekijänoikeus, kirjoittaja.