miehensä

Miehensä is a Finnish noun phrase that means "her husband" or "his husband," depending on who is the possessor. It is formed from the noun mies (man) with the third-person possessive suffix -nsä, resulting in miehensä. The suffix signals ownership by a third-person singular possessor, with the exact person understood from context.

In usage, miehensä functions as the noun “husband” belonging to someone mentioned elsewhere in the sentence. It is common in phrases that combine ownership with other particles, such as miehensä kanssa (with her/his husband) or miehensä luona (at her/his husband’s place). It also appears in constructions like hänen miehensä kuoli viime vuonna (her husband died last year) or hän meni miehensä luo (she went to her husband’s side/place).

Grammatical notes include that the suffix -nsä is a third-person possessive marker and does not encode gender; the possessor’s gender is derived from surrounding context or pronouns. The word is typically used to refer to the husband of a specific person, rather than as a standalone term, and it is compatible with standard Finnish case and postpositional constructions (for example, with kanssa, luona, tai ennen kuin, etc.).

Overall, miehensä is a common, neutral possessive noun form in Finnish that illustrates how the language encodes “X’s husband” without using a separate possessive pronoun for the owner.