tilapäiselle

Tilapäiselle is the allative singular form of the Finnish adjective tilapäinen, meaning temporary. In Finnish, adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify for number and case; when the noun is in the allative case, the adjective takes the corresponding allative form, which ends in -lle. Therefore tilapäiselle is used before a noun in the allative singular.

The form tilapäiselle is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form. It combines the stem of tilapäinen (tilapäis-) with the allative ending -lle. The plural allative form of tilapäinen would be tilapäisille, used with plural nouns in the allative case.

Common usage occurs in phrases that express purpose or direction toward something involving temporary status. Examples include tilapäiselle käytölle (for temporary use), tilapäiselle työntekijälle (to the temporary employee/for the temporary employee), and tilapäiselle projektin osuudelle (for the temporary portion of a project). These constructions illustrate how the adjective modifies the noun and adopts the allative form to indicate recipient, direction, or purpose.

Related topics in Finnish grammar include the broader system of case endings and the treatment of adjectives in noun phrases, as well as the allative case itself. The base adjective tilapäinen contrasts with tilapäisesti (adverb) and other related forms that describe temporariness in different syntactic roles.

See also: tilapäinen, Finnish grammar, allative case, adjectives in Finnish.