Tiloissaan

Tiloissaan is a Finnish grammatical form that expresses “in his/her/its state or condition.” It is built from the noun tila, meaning state, condition, or sometimes space, combined with the inessive case suffix -ssa/-ssä and the third-person possessive suffix -nsa/-nsä, yielding tiloissaan. The exact form reflects both the location in a figurative sense (being in a certain state) and ownership or association (belonging to he, she, or it).

Morphology and usage are typical of Finnish noun phrases with possessive suffixes. The core meaning centers on current condition rather than a physical location. In practice, tiloissaan is most common in descriptive or literary prose to depict someone or something as being in a particular emotional, physical, or situational state. It is not used to denote a physical room or place; that sense is usually expressed with other words.

The form can be inflected with other possessive suffixes to indicate different persons, producing variants such as tiloissani, tiloissasi, tiloissamme, tiloissanne, and so on. These forms allow concise conveying of “in my state,” “in your state,” “in our state,” etc., within the same morphological pattern.

Example: Hän istui hiljaa tiloissaan ja mietti tulevaa. The sentence illustrates describing a person’s current state while providing a sense of introspection or contemplation.

Tiloissaan is a standard example of Finnish case and possessive combination, illustrating how location (nessive) and ownership interact to describe a condition-bearing state.