Lauseeni

Lauseeni is the first-person singular possessive form of lause, a Finnish noun meaning sentence or clause. The possessive suffix -ni attaches to the noun to express ownership by the speaker, so lauseeni literally means “my sentence.” In Finnish, possessive suffixes attach directly to the noun, often making a separate possessive pronoun unnecessary in everyday use (minun lauseeni and lauseeni have the same basic meaning).

The form demonstrates a key feature of Finnish grammar: possession is encoded in suffixes rather than through a determinative like my or your in the same word order as some other languages. Lauseeni can function as any noun phrase in a sentence, taking standard syntactic roles such as subject or object depending on case marking and word order.

Examples include:

- Tässä on lauseeni. (Here is my sentence.)

- Kirjoitin lauseeni tänä aamuna. (I wrote my sentence this morning.)

- Lauseeni on lyhyt. (My sentence is short.)

Finnish also provides parallel forms for other possessors, such as lauseesi (your sentence) and lauseensa (his/her/its/their sentence), among others. The exact form reflects person and number of the possessor, and context often clarifies the intended referent. Lauseeni is a simple, practical example used in language-learning and grammar discussions to illustrate how Finnish morphology encodes possession through noun suffixes rather than separate possessive pronouns.