Omistamaansa

Omistamaansa is a Finnish grammatical form used to describe an object that is owned by someone in a relative construction. It is built from the verb omistaa (to own) and the past active participle omistama, combined with the third-person possessive suffix -nsä (spelled as -nsä/-nsa according to vowel harmony). The result, omistamaansa, means roughly “that [one] owns” or “owned by him/her,” and it typically modifies a following noun that is in the partitive or accusative case, depending on the governing verb. This construction lets the owner be understood from context without repeating a name or pronoun.

Usage examples show its function clearly. Hän myi omistamaansa asuntoa. (He sold the apartment that he owns.) Hän etsi omistamaansa avainta. (He looked for the key that he owns.) He haluavat nähdä omistamaansa omaisuutta. (They want to see the property that they own.) These phrases illustrate how omistamaansa embeds a relative clause within the noun phrase, avoiding a separate clause.

In practice, omistamaansa is more common in written Finnish and in formal or literary styles. It is used when the owner is explicitly identified in the discourse and the speaker wishes to highlight ownership without repeating the owner’s name. The form differs from other possessive constructions such as omistamani, which conveys the speaker’s own ownership, and from attributive phrases like omistama auto, which are less common in contemporary standard Finnish. Etymologically, it derives from omistaa and its participial forms, reflecting Finnish’s rich system of participial relative constructions.