asemaa

Asemaa is the partitive singular form of the Finnish noun asema, which means station. It is not a proper noun; rather, asemaa is used in sentences where the station is referred to in a non-specific or indefinite sense, or in grammatically required partitive constructions. In Finnish grammar the partitive is common with verbs that express ongoing or incomplete actions, negation, or indefinite quantities. For example: etsimme asemaa (we are looking for a station); minulla ei ole asemaa (I do not have a station); tarvitsemme asemaa (we need a station).

The word also appears in compound nouns related to transportation, most notably juna-asema and rautatieasema, which both mean train station or railway station. In these compounds the base asema remains recognizable, while the overall meaning is determined by the compound as a whole.

Etymology: asema is a native Finnish word that gained widespread use to denote places of transit. Its current sense of “station” was reinforced by historical development of railway networks, with the term also aligning with cognates in surrounding languages such as Swedish. The form asemaa is the standard partitive singular used in everyday Finnish.

In summary, asemaa is the grammatical form used to talk about a station in a non-specific sense or within particular verb constructions, and it also appears as part of common transportation compounds like juna-asema and rautatieasema.