työntekijänsä

Työntekijäänsä is a Finnish possessive construction meaning “his/her/their employee.” It is used to indicate that the employee belongs to or is associated with a third-person possessor. The form is common in written Finnish, especially in corporate, legal, and HR contexts.

Morphology and usage: The phrase is formed from the noun työntekijä (employee) together with the third-person possessive suffix -nsä. The suffix attaches to the noun in its case-marked form, most often the partitive or accusative singular, so työntekijäänsä appears when the possessed item functions as a direct object or otherwise requires that case. The exact spelling can vary depending on syntactic role, but the meaning remains “his/her/their employee.”

Examples:

- Hän palkkasi työntekijäänsä. (He hired his employee.)

- Työntekijäänsä koskevat säännöt uudistettiin. (The rules concerning his/her employee were updated.)

Relation to other forms: The base noun has other related possessive forms such as työntekijänsä, which uses the genitive stem and also means “his/her employee” but with a different grammatical nuance. The choice between -nsä forms reflects case and syntactic function rather than a difference in core meaning.

Etymology and context: The form derives from työntekijä plus the common third-person possessive suffix -nsä. It is primarily a grammatical tool for indicating ownership or association in Finnish and is frequently encountered in formal writing about workplaces and personnel.