käytännöissään

Käytännöissään is a Finnish inflected form of käytäntö (practice, convention). It expresses “in their own practices” or “in his/her/its practices” and is used to refer to the habitual procedures, routines, or norms of a subject. The possessive element marks the owner of the practices, with the exact possessor determined by context.

Morphology and usage: The form combines the inessive case marker with a third-person possessive suffix, yielding a word that translates as “in (their/ his/her) practices.” The exact parsing is less important than the context; in Finnish, adding the possessive suffix to a noun stem is common to indicate whose practices are being discussed. In practice you will often see this form preceded by a noun that identifies the possessor, e.g., valtion käytännöissään or yrityksen käytännöissään.

Usage and nuance: Käytännöissään is typically used in formal, analytical, or evaluative discourse, such as journalism, politics, or sociology, when describing or judging how someone or some institution conducts itself through its procedures and routines. The phrase can carry a normative implication, suggesting that the subject’s practices may be compared with standards or expectations and possibly called for change.

Relation to other terms: It contrasts with forms like käytäntö (practice) in general, käytännöt (practices) in plural, and with more general words for convention or policy. It demonstrates Finnish’s capacity to pack location and possession into a single word.