työlistaan

Työlistaan is a Finnish term formed from työlista, meaning a work list or to-do list, with the illative case suffix that marks direction or movement toward something. In usage, työlistaan denotes that an item is being placed into or is part of the work list, often in contexts of task management or planning.

Origin and form: The base is työlista (work list). The illative ending -an yields työlistaan, which is used to indicate “into the work list” or “to the work list.” The expression is common in everyday Finnish as well as in professional and digital productivity contexts.

Usage: Työlistaan appears in sentences that describe adding, moving, or referencing tasks within a set of planned work. Examples include: “Lisää tämä tehtävä työlistaan,” meaning “Add this task to the work list,” and “Tehtävä siirrettiin työlistaan,” meaning “The task was moved to the work list.” It is typically used with verbs like lisätä (to add) or siirtää (to move).

Context and nuances: Työlistaan is not a proper noun; it is a grammatical form used to express a relation to a list of tasks. It is especially common in project management, software interfaces, and personal productivity discussions in Finnish, where lists and task tracking are central.

See also: työlista, tehtävälista, to-do list, kanban, task management.