Paksuutensa

Paksuutensa is a term used in Finnish linguistics to describe a specific possessive construction formed with the noun paksuus, which means thickness. The form literally expresses the thickness belonging to or associated with something, functioning as a compact way to say “its thickness” in contexts where a possessive relationship is emphasized.

The word arises from the base noun paksuus, meaning thickness, combined with the third-person possessive suffix. In Finnish, possessive constructions attach to nouns to indicate ownership or association, and paksuutensa is the result of applying the third-person possessive marker to paksuus. The construction thus marks that the thickness in question is the attribute of a preceding noun or subject rather than a general or abstract thickness.

In practical use, paksuutensa is most likely to appear in descriptive or technical writing, such as architectural specifications, material assessments, or stylistic language that aims to foreground the idea of “its thickness.” In everyday spoken Finnish, speakers typically prefer the more ordinary phrasing sen paksuus (its thickness) or sen paksuuden (the thickness of it) unless the authors intend a particular stylistic or emphatic effect.

Because paksuutensa is a specialized grammatical form, it is often discussed in studies of Finnish morphology and syntax rather than in general dictionaries. It illustrates how Finnish can encode object-specific properties through possessive morphology, sometimes yielding forms that are more concise but less common in ordinary speech.

See also: Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes, paksuus.