hakemansa

Hakemansa is a Finnish linguistic term used to refer to the thing that a person has requested or applied for. In translation it can be rendered as “the application/permit/etc. that someone requested.” The expression appears mainly in formal administrative language and in descriptive or literary contexts to specify the object of an action such as seeking, applying for a permit, benefit, or information.

The word is formed from the verb hakea (to seek or to apply for) and a participial stem combined with a possessive suffix, producing hakemansa. As a noun phrase, hakemansa functions to designate the specific item that was requested. For example, in a sentence like “Hänen hakemansa lupa on myönnetty,” the clause refers to “the permit he requested.” The construction can also be used with plural or different objects, as in “hakemansa tiedot” (the information he requested).

Hakemansa is distinct from the more common hakemus, which is the general term for an application or petition. Hakemansa is not typically used in everyday conversation; it tends to appear in legal, bureaucratic, or literary text where precision about the object of a request is important. In practice, speakers may substitute hakemus or lupa when the specific object is clear from context, but hakemansa provides a way to foreground the item that was requested.

Etymologically, hakemansa derives from hakea (to seek/apply) with the past participle form and a possessive suffix to indicate “the one that was requested by him/her.” The form can vary to reflect person and number in broader discourse.