vastaavilla

Vastaavilla is a Finnish term used as the adessive plural form of vastaava, meaning the people who are in charge or responsible. It is typically found in formal or administrative writing to designate the group entrusted with a task, project, or department.

Usage: Vastaavilla functions as a referent for the responsible party or parties. For example: "Vastaavilla on päätösvalta tässä projektissa." Another example: "Vastaavilla on velvollisuus raportoida säännöllisesti." The term emphasizes collective accountability rather than individual names.

Context and nuance: The word signals an organizational role and is more common in official documents, meeting minutes, or guidelines. It can sound formal or bureaucratic in everyday speech, where more direct phrasing may be preferred.

Etymology and related forms: Vastaavilla derives from the Finnish adjective vastaava, meaning in charge or responsible. It is related to other inflected forms of vastaava used across different cases and numbers. The term should be distinguished from vastuullinen, which more directly means "responsible" or "accountable" as an adjective.