Taastuseni

Taastuseni is a Finnish lexical form that can be read as meaning “my recovery” or, in certain contexts, “to my recovery.” It is derived from taastus, meaning recovery or restoration, combined with a first-person possessive suffix. The resulting form illustrates how Finnish can fuse a base noun with a possessive ending to create a noun that denotes the speaker’s relation to that concept.

In practice, taastuseni is not a common everyday word. It appears primarily in literary or archaic registers where authors experiment with possessive formations to emphasize personal experience. For most contemporary Finnish speakers, taastukseni or a rephrased expression such as minun toipumiseni would be preferred to convey the same idea in natural prose. The former (taastukseni) is more typical for the base noun taastus, while the latter uses the more common noun toipuminen for “recovery.”

Etymologically, the form follows Finnish noun-possessive patterns, where a base noun can take a suffix to indicate ownership. While the specific -eni ending is used in various Finnish words to signal “my,” its appearance with taastus is relatively rare in modern standard language, contributing to its limited attestation.

See also: taastus (recovery/restoration), toipuminen (recovery), Finnish possessive forms.

References to taastuseni are scarce in standard dictionaries, and it is generally treated as a literary or historical curiosity rather than a mainstream lexical item.