riippuvuuksensa

Riippuvuuksensa is the third-person possessive form of the Finnish noun riippuvuus, meaning addiction or dependency. The word is used to refer to an individual's addiction and translates roughly to “his/her addiction” or “their addiction,” depending on the subject. It can describe addictions to substances, behaviors, or other kinds of dependency.

Formation and syntax: In Finnish, possessive forms are attached to the noun stem. For the noun riippuvuus the third-person singular possessive suffix is -nsä, producing riippuvuuksensa. The suffix indicates ownership by the subject and allows the noun to function without an explicit pronoun in many contexts. The phrase is neutrally phrased and common in clinical, journalistic, and literary Finnish.

Usage examples: Hän kamppaili riippuvuuksensa kanssa. The expression appears in medical, psychological, and news writing as well as fiction when detailing a character’s struggle with addiction. It is typically used when the owner of the addiction is explicit in the surrounding context, and care is taken to maintain respectful or factual framing.

Notes: Etymology traces riippuvuus to riippua (to depend) with the nominalizing suffix -vuus; the possessive suffix -nsä completes the form. The construction illustrates Finnish possessive morphology, whereby the owner is embedded in the noun phrase rather than indicated only by a separate pronoun.