kävelensä

Kävelensä is a Finnish noun phrase meaning “his/her walk” or “the walk of him/her.” It is formed from the noun kävely (walk) combined with the third-person possessive suffix -nsä, which marks ownership by a third person. The resulting form is used to refer to someone’s walk without repeating the owner’s name or pronoun. In practice, the possessive is clear from context, and the phrase can also appear in constructions like hänen kävelensä to explicitly indicate who owns the walk.

In usage, kävelensä can function in sentences where the owner is understood or specified elsewhere in the discourse. For example, Kävelensä kesto oli pitkä means “The duration of his/her walk was long.” Kävelensä aikana hän kuunteli ympäristöään translates to “During his/her walk, he/she listened to the surroundings.” The form is common in narrative prose and everyday speech when the speaker wants to refer succinctly to the act of walking belonging to a particular person.

Morphology and variations: the possessive suffix -nsä has several allomorphs depending on person and number, but kävelensä specifically illustrates the general pattern of attaching a third-person possessive ending to a noun. The word contrasts with other possessive constructions such as hänen kävelyssään (in his/her walk, with a different emphasis) in nuanced contexts.

See also: Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes, noun phrases.