Työntekijästään

Työntekijästään is a Finnish grammatical form built from the noun työntekijä (employee) combined with the elative case suffix -stä and the third-person possessive suffix -nsä. The result is a single word that can be translated roughly as “of his/her employee” or “about his/her employee,” depending on context. It is used when the sentence requires a reference to something related to a specific employee that belongs to or concerns a person mentioned in the discourse.

Formation and usage: The elative suffix -stä indicates origin, reference, or source in Finnish, and the possessive suffix -nsä marks the third-person possessor. With työntekijä, these morphemes stack to form työntekijästään. Common contexts include verbs of talking about or referring to someone’s employee, for example: Mediassa puhuttiin hänen työntekijästään paljon. In the discussion, there was reference to his/her employee. Another example: Keskustelussa viitattiin hänen työntekijästään. There was a reference to his/her employee in the discussion.

Nuance and comparison: The standard genitive possessive form työntekijänsä means “his/her employee” without the elative function. The elative form työntekijästään is more specialized and is often found in formal writing, journalism, or reporting where topics are discussed in terms of what relates to someone’s employee or what originated from their employee. In everyday speech, speakers may prefer rephrasing to avoid the long elative possessive construction, for example by using a simpler possessive phrase or restructuring the sentence.