Sijoitustaan

Sijoitustaan is a Finnish grammatical form that expresses ownership by a third-person possessor and refers to the noun sijoitus, meaning investment. It is used when the speaker wants to indicate “his investment” or “her investment” in a sentence, often in contexts where the noun appears in an oblique case or as the object of a verb. The form is one of several inflected variants of sijoitus that Finnish uses to mark possession and relation within a clause.

Common contexts for sijoitustaan include discussions of personal finance, corporate investments, or investments in projects. In journalism and business writing, sijoitustaan may appear in constructions that attribute focus or responsibility to the investor or to the entity making the investment, such as when describing what someone hopes to protect or grow.

Examples of usage include:

- Hän ei halua menettää sijoitustaan. (He does not want to lose his investment.)

- Sijoitustaan koskevat arviot julkaistaan huomenna. (The evaluations concerning his/her investment will be published tomorrow.)

- Yritys aikoo kasvattaa sijoitustaan seuraavassa vaiheessa. (The company plans to increase its investment in the next phase.)

Related forms in Finnish include other possessive and case variants of sijoitus, such as sijoituksensa (his/her investment) and sijoituksestaan (from his/her investment). Sijoitustaan, like other possessions in Finnish, illustrates how possession and case interact to convey meaning about ownership and the role of the investment within a sentence.