laitteistaan

Laitteistaan is a Finnish noun-form used to express ownership of hardware by a third-person plural subject, such as a company, a team, or a community. It is derived from laitteisto, meaning hardware or equipment, and is formed through Finnish possessive and inflection patterns that indicate that the hardware belongs to others rather than to the speaker.

In use, laitteistaan appears in formal or technical writing, such as IT reports, procurement documents, and journalism, when describing the hardware assets of an organization or group. It is one of several possessive forms built on the base laitteisto; other forms exist for different possessor persons and numbers. The exact spelling changes with the possessor and grammatical role in a sentence, reflecting Finnish’s rich system of suffixes and cases.

Laitteisto, the base word, refers to hardware or equipment in a general sense. Laitteistaan specifically marks that the hardware is owned by a third-person plural subject, and it functions to connect ownership to the relevant discourse without naming the possessor directly. The form is most commonly encountered in written Finnish, particularly where precise attribution of hardware ownership is important, such as in corporate communications, audits, or technical descriptions.

See also: laitteisto, laitteet, information technology, Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes. While laitteistaan is a specific inflected form, it exemplifies how Finnish uses suffixation to indicate ownership and case relations within a sentence.