työtekijän

työtekijän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun työtekijä, a term referring to a person employed to perform work. In contemporary Finnish, the more common word for an employee is työntekijä, whose genitive singular is työntekijän. The form työtekijän can therefore appear mainly in contexts where the variant työtekijä is used or in older texts; in everyday modern usage you are more likely to encounter työntekijän.

Etimologically, both työntekijä and työtekijä are compounds built from työ (work) andtekijä (doer), meaning roughly “one who does work.” The two spellings reflect a historical or stylistic variation rather than a difference in meaning.

Usage notes: The genitive singular рабочих indicates possession or association, as in työtekijän oikeudet (the employee’s rights) or työtekijän palkka (the employee’s salary). The form is primarily a possessive case rather than a distinct lexical category, and its presence signals either a variant spelling or a quotation from material that uses työtekijä rather than the standard työntekijä.

See also: työntekijä, the standard Finnish noun for an employee, and its various cases and plurals. In regular Finnish grammar, the plural genitive of the standard term is työntekijöiden (the employees’). When referring to the variant form työtekijä, similar genitive plural would be työtekijöiden in practice, though usage overwhelmingly favors työntekijöiden in modern texts.