käsittelemästään

Käsittelemästään is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb käsitellä, meaning to handle, deal with, or discuss. The form is a past active participle combined with the elative case and a possessive suffix, producing a noun-like or adjectival phrase that means “that he has dealt with” or “regarding what he has handled.” In practice it is used to refer to content or topics a person has addressed or processed, and it often appears in formal or written Finnish.

Morphology and usage

The base is käsittelemä- (past active participle of käsitellä). By adding the elative suffix -stä and a third-person possessive ending, a form such as käsittelemästään emerges, indicating “of what he has handled/dealt with.” The phrase is typically followed by a noun in the elative (for example, aiheesta, asiasta) to specify the content of the handling. For example: Hän kertoi käsittelemästään aiheesta. (He spoke about the topic he had addressed.) Käsittelemästään asiasta ei löytynyt uutta tietoa. (There was no new information about the matter he had dealt with.)

Relation to other forms

Käsittelemästään is part of a broader set of Finnish participial constructions that express relative clauses or content-related qualifiers without a finite verb. It contrasts with the simple past passive or present participle forms by adding the elative and possessive inflection, which tightens reference to who did the handling and what content was involved.

See also

Käsitellä, past participles in Finnish, Finnish participial constructions.