Doktorikraadini

Doktorikraadini is a Finnish noun phrase that means “my doctoral degree.” It is formed from the root word doktorikraad (doctorate) together with the first-person possessive suffix -ni, which marks ownership. In Finnish, possessive suffixes attach directly to the noun, so doktorikraadini functions as “my doctorate” in contexts where the loanword form is used.

In standard Finnish, the official designation for a doctoral degree is tohtorin tutkinto. While loanword forms such as doktorikraad or the possessive doktorikraadini can appear, they are less common in formal language. They may be found in bilingual texts, historical writings, or informal speech, where the speaker chooses a more direct or borrowed term to refer to the degree.

Grammatically, doktorikraadini illustrates Finnish possessive morphology: the suffix -ni marks first-person singular possession and is attached to the noun without altering the base meaning of the degree itself. Like other Finnish nouns, it can be inflected for different cases in sentences, though its loanword form is relatively rare outside personal references or stylistic use.

See also: tohtorin tutkinto; filosofian tohtori; akateemiset tutkinnot.