Hankinnassaan

Hankinnassaan is a Finnish word that means “in his/her/its procurement” and is used to refer to a person’s or entity’s own procurement activities. The term is formed from hankinta, meaning procurement or acquisition, combined with the inessive suffix -ssa and the third-person possessive suffix -nsa.

Morphology and construction: hankinta plus the inessive suffix -ssa yields hankinnassa (“in procurement”), and the possessive suffix -nsa appends to indicate whose procurement is being referred to. The resulting form hankinnassaan literally translates to “in his/her/its procurement.” This construction is a typical example of Finnish noun inflection that encodes both location or state and ownership within a single word.

Usage and register: hankinnassaan is primarily found in formal, legal, or administrative Finnish, particularly in discussions of public or corporate procurement, contracts, or project planning. It is less common in everyday speech and is more likely to appear in parliamentary records, procurement guidelines, or news reports about procurement decisions.

Example: In a contract or report, one might find a sentence such as “Hankinnassaan hän huomioi sekä kustannukset että laadun,” meaning “In his procurement, he considered both costs and quality.” This illustrates how the term anchors statements to a specific person’s or organization’s procurement activities.

See also: hankinta (procurement or acquisition) and hankintalainsäädäntö (procurement legislation); in Finnish grammar, the inessive case -ssa/-ssä and possessive suffixes such as -nsa.