Pintaalansa
Pintaalansa is a Finnish linguistic term referring to the possessive form of the compound noun pinta-ala, meaning “surface area.” In standard Finnish orthography, the possessive of a compound noun like this is attached to the final element, producing pinta-alansa, which translates to “its surface area.” The form without a hyphen, pintaalansa, appears mainly in informal writing or in contexts where hyphenation is omitted, but it is generally considered nonstandard in formal use.
Etymology and form: The term is built from pinta-ala (surface area) combined with the third-person possessive
Usage: Pintaalansa is used to refer to the surface area belonging to a specific object. For example,
See also: pinta-ala, Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes in Finnish, orthography.
Notes: While pinta-alansa denotes a precise concept in Finnish, the hyphenated form pinta-alansa is the standard