ostoksistaan
Ostoksistaan is a Finnish phrase that literally means “from his/her shopping” and is used to refer to a person’s purchases. It is formed from the plural noun ostokset (purchases) with the elative case suffix -sta/-stä, plus the third-person possessive suffix, producing ostoksistaan. The construction communicates the origin or source of what is being discussed—the subject’s shopping.
In usage, ostoksistaan appears primarily in written Finnish, including journalism, commentary, and consumer reporting, where authors
Although the form is well understood by Finnish speakers, ostoksistaan is not a common everyday utterance in
See also: ostokset, elative case in Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes in Finnish.