merkitsemässään
Merkitsemässään is a Finnish linguistic form that appears in written Finnish to express “in their marking” or “as they marked.” It is a participial construction derived from the verb merkitä (to mark) and the participial stem merkitsemässä, combined with the possessive suffix -ssaan/-ssään to indicate the owner of the action. The result is a dependent participial phrase that can introduce a clause describing how something was marked by a specific agent.
In grammar, merkitsemässään functions as a subsidiary, adverbial participial expression. It compresses information that might otherwise
Semantically, merkitsemässään signals simultaneity or contemporaneity between the main clause and the marking action, while the
See also: Finnish participles, possessive suffixes, participial constructions.