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
Usage and register: hankinnassaan is primarily found in formal, legal, or administrative Finnish, particularly in discussions
Example: In a contract or report, one might find a sentence such as “Hankinnassaan hän huomioi sekä
See also: hankinta (procurement or acquisition) and hankintalainsäädäntö (procurement legislation); in Finnish grammar, the inessive case