pääni
Pääni is the Finnish word meaning “my head.” It is formed by the noun pää, meaning head, plus the first-person singular possessive suffix -ni, which marks ownership directly on the noun. This is a typical Finnish construction, where possessive suffixes attach to nouns to express possession without a separate possessive pronoun.
In use, pääni refers specifically to the speaker’s head. For example: Pääni on kipeä. (My head hurts.)
The possessive suffix system allows for other possessors with the same noun, such as pääsi for “your
Phonetically, pääni is pronounced with a long vowel in the first syllable, typically approximated as [ˈpæːni]