Asuinpaikkaansa

Asuinpaikkaansa is a Finnish grammatical form built from the noun asuinpaikka, meaning residence or place of living, combined with the illative case ending and the third-person possessive suffix. The base asuinpaikka comes from asua (to live) and paikka (place). The form is used to indicate movement toward or destination related to someone’s residence, typically with verbs of motion or change of residence.

In ordinary usage, asuinpaikkaansa translates roughly as “to his/her place of residence” or “to one’s own residence,” depending on context. The illative ending signals direction toward that place, while the suffixansa (the 3rd person possessive suffix) marks the possessor. Because Finnish morphology stacks cases and possessive suffixes, the exact word form may vary with vowel harmony and surrounding phonology.

Common contexts include sentences about moving, visiting, or returning to someone’s home, as in: Hän meni asuinpaikkaansa (He went to his place of residence) or Hän muutti asuinpaikkaansa (He moved to his place of residence). The form can appear in both written and spoken Finnish, especially in descriptive, legal, or formal prose dealing with housing or residency.

Related concepts include asuinpaikka (residence/place of living) and other possessive illative forms such as kotinsa or asuinpaikkansa, which adjust to different persons and possessors.