omistamaa

Omistamaa is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb omistaa, meaning to own. It functions as a participial adjective that describes a noun as being owned by someone. In practice it appears in phrases such as omistamaansa omaisuutta, which translates to property that he or she owns, and is used to indicate possession within a sentence.

Morphologically, omistamaa is the partitive singular form of the present active participle omistama. The partitive ending reflects the role of the owned item as an indefinite or partially viewed object in the sentence, a common pattern in Finnish when the governing verb or context requires partitive case. The form can be adapted to agree with different possessors and syntactic positions in longer clauses.

Usage and context, Omistamaa occurs mainly in formal, literary, or legal language, where precise possession needs to be stated. It commonly appears in dependent clauses or in constructions that specify which property or asset is involved, as in the examples cited below. It is less common in everyday spoken Finnish, where simpler expressions of ownership are often used, but it remains an important tool for writers and translators dealing with ownership and property.

Examples: Hän myi omistamaansa omaisuutta. This means He sold property that he owned. Hän on menettänyt omistamaansa omaisuuttaan. This means He has lost property that he owned.

Related terms include omistaa (to own), omistaja (owner), omistus (ownership), and omaisuus (property). Omistamaa is part of Finnish grammar’s rich system of participles that express possession and attribution within noun phrases.