käsittelemisestä

Käsittelemisestä is a Finnish noun form that expresses “about handling/processing” and functions as the elative form of the nominalized verb käsitteleminen, derived from the verb käsitellä (to handle, to process). It denotes the topic, scope, or source of handling or processing in a sentence, and it can refer to the act itself in a general sense depending on context. The form is common in formal Finnish, including legal, administrative, and academic writing, as well as in journalism when discussing rules, procedures, or debates related to processing.

Grammatical note: käsittelemisestä is formed from käsitteleminen (the act of handling/processing) and inflected in the elative case with the suffix -stä, yielding the sense “about/from the handling.” As a topic marker, it often appears after verbs like puhua, keskustella, tai säädetä, to indicate what is being discussed or regulated.

Usage and context: The expression is especially frequent when referring to data processing, information handling, or treatment of materials in a study or policy context. It can indicate a subject of discussion, regulation, or analysis. In many cases, it appears in compound phrases such as henkilötietojen käsittelemisestä (the processing of personal data) or more generally in discussions about handling practices.

Examples:

- Henkilötietojen käsittelemisestä säädetään lailla. (A law regulates the processing of personal data.)

- Keskustelussa käsittelemisestä nousi esiin useita kysymyksiä. (Several questions emerged in the discussion about handling/processing.)

- Käsittelemisestä puhuttiin laajasti mediassa.

See also: käsittely (processing, handling) and käsitteleminen (the act of handling/processing).