oikeuksensa

Oikeuksensa is a Finnish term that translates roughly to “one’s rights” and is used to denote rights belonging to a person or entity. It is the third-person possessive form attached to the noun oikeus, meaning right, entitlement, or law. In Finnish, possessive suffixes indicate ownership by a third person, and oikeuksensa is the common form when referring to a person’s rights in contexts ranging from everyday language to legal or political discourse.

The form appears in sentences such as Hän puolusti oikeuksensa, meaning “He defended his rights.” The word can also appear as part of longer phrases that discuss conditional or protected rights, or in contrastive constructions stressing what rights belong to a speaker or to others. In many contexts, speakers may alternatively use omien oikeuksien to express “one’s own rights” in a plural or more general sense.

Etymologically, oikeuksensa is built from the noun oikeus (right, entitlement, law) plus the third-person possessive suffix -nsä, a productive pattern in Finnish for indicating possession. The exact interpretation—whether the reference is to a single right or to a set of rights—depends on context and surrounding grammar, such as case markings and surrounding nouns like oikeudet or oikeuksien.

See also: oikeus, oikeusvaltio, kansalaisoikeudet, perusoikeudet.