uskottavuuttaan

Uskottavuuttaan is a Finnish inflected form of the noun uskottavuus, which means credibility. The form demonstrates how Finnish combines case endings with possessive suffixes to express both grammatical relations and possession within a single word. In practice, uskottavuuttaan is used when referring to someone’s or something’s credibility in a clause where that credibility is the object of the verb or expression and where the third-person possessive suffix is required.

In standard Finnish, the form is encountered in sentences that discuss or evaluate credibility from a third-person perspective. A typical usage is in a passive or evaluative context, for example: Hänen uskottavuuttaan kyseenalaistettiin, meaning “His/her credibility was questioned.” This illustrates how the word carries both the sense of credibility and the possessive relation to the subject.

Uskottavuuttaan is part of a broader set of inflected forms derived from uskottavuus. Other common forms include the base nominative uskottavuus (credibility), as well as different cases and possessive forms such as uskottavuudesta (of credibility) or uskottavuuden (the credibility’s). The exact ending reflects the required case and the third-person possessive in Finnish syntax, without adding new lexical meaning beyond the base word.

See also: uskottavuus, Finnish grammar, possessive suffixes, partitive and genitive cases.