vastuulle

Vastuulle is the allative form of the Finnish noun vastuu, meaning responsibility, duty, or liability. In Finnish grammar, the allative suffix -lle marks direction toward a person or entity and is used to indicate who bears or is assigned responsibility in a sentence. Thus vastuulle literally translates to “to responsibility” and is used in constructions that attribute responsibility to someone or something.

In usage, vastuulle appears mainly in formal, administrative, legal, or organizational language. It is common in contexts where responsibility is being assigned, attributed, or discussed as part of governance, project management, or accountability structures. The form often appears with verbs such as kuulua (to belong to/pertain to), siirtyä (to transfer), or asettaa (to set/assign), where the recipient of responsibility is expressed in the allative case.

Vastuulle can convey nuances of official or formal responsibility, as opposed to more everyday phrases that use other cases or constructions. While it is a standard feature of Finnish grammar, its use is more frequent in written documents, reports, procedures, and statutes than in casual speech. Language users may also encounter related forms such as vastuu as the base noun, or phrases that express responsibility in other grammatical cases, depending on the syntactic needs of the sentence.

Overall, vastuulle functions as a grammatical tool to designate the recipient or target of responsibility within Finnish sentences, especially in formal discourse.