kalustonsa

Kalustonsa is a Finnish possessive construction used to indicate ownership of equipment or furnishings by a third-person singular subject. In English it translates roughly as his or her equipment, or more generally as one’s own equipment depending on context.

Formation and meaning: The base noun kalusto means equipment or furnishings. Its genitive form is kaluston. Finnish marks possession with a third-person suffix, which can appear as -nsa or -nsä depending on vowel harmony and surrounding forms. When applied to the genitive kaluston, the resulting form is kalustonsa, meaning “his/her equipment.” The construction shows ownership rather than direct possession by a named person.

Usage: Kalustonsa is common in both spoken and written Finnish. It appears in sentences that discuss what belongs to someone. For example, Hän myi kalustonsa means “He/She sold his/her equipment.” The form is also used in narrative or descriptive passages to refer to a person’s belongings, especially in contexts such as liquidation, sale, or removal of assets.

Notes: Finnish has a system of possessive suffixes that varies with person and vowel harmony, of which -nsa/-nsä is a standard third-person singular form. Kalustonsa serves as a clear, concrete example of how possession is expressed in Finnish through combining a noun’s genitive stem with the possessive suffix.