Omistamissa

Omistamissa is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb omistaa, meaning to own. It is a participial construction that signals possession by the subject and typically appears in inessive plural form when modifying a noun phrase in complex clauses. In standard Finnish, omistama is the past participle meaning owned or possessed, and its inflected forms can attach to nouns to form relative or qualifying phrases. The form omistamissa represents the plural inessive used with a plural noun to indicate “in those that I own” or “in the houses I own,” for example.

Morphology and usage are largely restricted to more elaborate or formal styles of writing and speaking. Omistamissa tends to occur in subordinate clauses or descriptive phrases where the speaker wants to foreground the relationship of ownership between the subject and the noun described. In everyday spoken Finnish, simpler structures such as omistamani talo or talot, joita omistan, are more common, but omistamissa remains grammatical and clear in contexts requiring emphasis on possessed items or places.

Examples include:

- omistamissani taloissa asuvat ihmiset: people living in the houses I own.

- omistamissani kirjoissa esiintyvät henkilöt: the people appearing in the books I own.

See also: omistaa, omistaminen, omistus, omistusoikeus. The form illustrates Finnish’s rich system of participial and possessive constructions, where ownership can be embedded directly into noun phrases to convey precise relationships between speaker and objects.