Kokoelmaansa

Kokoelmaansa is a Finnish noun phrase that translates roughly to “one’s own collection.” It is formed from kokoelma, meaning collection, combined with the third-person possessive suffix that indicates ownership by the subject of the sentence. In Finnish, possessive suffixes attach to the noun and express that the item belongs to he, she, or it, with variations such as -nsä or -sä depending on phonological factors. The resulting form kokoelmaansa is used to refer specifically to the possessor’s own collection.

The phrase is used in ordinary Finnish prose and conversation to denote ownership by a third-person subject when that owner is clear from context. For example, it can function as the object of a verb or as part of a larger noun phrase. The construction is common in both everyday speech and literary writing, where writers may want to emphasize what belongs to a particular person or character.

In usage, kokoelmaansa does not stand alone as a proper noun and does not require capitalization. Its meaning is inherently tied to the possessor identified in the sentence, often with the subject introduced earlier in the discourse. The item being possessed remains kokoelma, while the suffix indicates personal ownership.

See also: Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes (-ni, -si, -nsa/-nsä), examples of possessive constructions in Finnish.