pitämäänsä

Pitämänsä is a Finnish adjectival participle form derived from the verb pitää, meaning to hold, maintain, or regard. It is used to create a noun modifier that expresses something a person has held or maintained, typically referring to a belief, promise, or stance. In usage, pitämänsä functions like a compound adjective, as in pitämänsä mielipide, “the opinion he holds.”

Form and function: pitämänsä is the third-person singular possessive form of the present active participle pitämä, and it agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case. Other possessors exist as well: pitämäni (my), pitämäsi (your), pitämämme (our). The following noun is inflected for its own case, so pitämänsä mielipide can become pitämänsä mielipiteen (genitive) or pitämämme mielipidettä (partitive), depending on the sentence. The construction is common in written Finnish and is used to express beliefs, commitments, or statements attributed to the subject.

Examples:

- Hän piti kiinni pitämänsä lupauksesta. (He kept the promise he had made.)

- Hän esitti pitämänsä mielipiteen keskustelussa. (He presented the opinion he holds in the discussion.)

- Meidän pitämämme sopimus on voimassa. (Our agreement is in effect.)

Notes: pitämänsä conveys a sense that the subject is associated with the held item at the time of reference, and the phrase often appears in formal or analytical writing to attribute a stance or obligation to someone. It is one of several Finnish participial constructions that attach possessive markers to express relative, agentive meaning within a noun phrase.