sairaalan

Sairaalan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun sairaala, meaning hospital. In Finnish, the genitive is used to express possession or association, and is formed by adding the ending -n to the nominative form. Therefore sairaalan translates as “of the hospital” or “the hospital’s.” The form is common in everyday language, especially in noun phrases describing things related to a particular hospital.

The genitive can be used to indicate ownership as well as general relation. It appears in many compound phrases and descriptive expressions, such as sairaalan ovet (the hospital’s doors), sairaalan henkilöstö (the hospital’s staff), and sairaalan piha (the hospital’s courtyard). It also serves in location phrases like Sairaalan edessä on parkkipaikka (There is a parking area in front of the hospital) and Sairaalan takana sijaitsee päivittäiskauppa (Behind the hospital there is a daily shop).

Finnish has no indefinite or definite articles, so the genitive operates as a grammatical marker rather than a definite article. The form sairaalan is specifically the genitive singular; other cases and numbers use different endings (for example, sairaala in the nominative, sairaaloita in the partitive plural, etc.). The pattern illustrated by sairaalan is typical for many Finnish nouns where the genitive singular adds -n to the base form.

In summary, sairaalan serves as a key grammatical tool for signaling possession or association with a hospital in Finnish, enabling concise expressions of relationships and locations linked to a hospital.