tilaisuuksina

Tilaisuuksina is the essive plural form of the Finnish noun tilaisuus, meaning an event or occasion. In Finnish grammar the essive case expresses a temporary state or a role, often translated roughly as “as …” when describing someone or something in that capacity. Tilaisuuksina is used when referring to several events described in this way, i.e., in the sense of “as occasions” or “in the capacity of occasions.”

The form is primarily found in formal or descriptive language, such as official documents, program descriptions, or analyses where events are characterized by their function or role rather than as a simple list of occurrences. It can appear in predicative constructions or in phrases that describe something as being in the form of, or treated as, multiple events.

Usage notes and distinctions: tilaisuuksina is distinct from translative forms such as tilaisuuksiin or tilaisuuksiiksi, which express changing into a state or role (for example “into occasions” or “as occasions” in a sense of becoming). Tilaisuuksina, by contrast, communicates a static description of the events in the role of occasions, not a transformation.

See also: Finnish grammar, essive case, translative case, noun declensions.