voinokareilla

Voinokareilla is a Finnish wordform derived from voinokare, meaning "a pat of butter" (voi = butter, nokare = lump or dollop). The suffix -illa marks the plural adessive case, so voinokareilla can be translated as "with pats of butter", "on pats of butter" or "having pats of butter". It denotes accompaniment, instrumentality or a location in which something is situated.

In everyday language voinokareilla commonly appears in culinary contexts and recipes to describe how food is served or prepared, for example indicating that slices of bread, vegetables or hot dishes are topped or served with small amounts of butter. The form is grammatical and neutral in register; it functions syntactically as an adverbial phrase and often co-occurs with verbs such as olla (to be), tarjota (to offer), levittää (to spread) or paistaa (to fry).

Etymologically the compound combines two common Finnish nouns and follows regular case inflection. Similar expressions include voinokarein (adessive singular in older or dialectal usage) and voilla (with butter, using the simple noun voi). The term is widely understood by speakers of Finnish and occurs in both spoken and written registers whenever precise description of small quantities of butter is required.