vapautumistaan

Vapautumistaan is a Finnish grammatical form that refers to someone’s release or liberation. It is formed from the noun vapautuminen, which denotes release, freedom or emancipation, and it carries a third-person possessive suffix. The suffix indicates whose release is being discussed, and the exact subject is provided by context or accompanying possessive pronouns.

In standard usage, vapautumistaan functions as the object of a sentence or clause when the writer wants to emphasize the release belonging to a particular person or entity without repeating the subject. It is commonly found in news reporting, legal texts, and narrative prose where a person’s freedom or exemption is central to the sentence’s meaning. The form can appear in both singular and plural contexts depending on the referenced possessor, though it most often notes a single subject’s release.

Etymologically, the word reflects Finnish compounding and agglutination patterns, where vapautuminen acts as the base noun and a possessive suffix marks ownership or relation. The resulting form, vapautumistaan, is thus a possessive, genitive-like construction that ties the release to the possessor expressed in context.

Examples of usage include sentences like: “Hänen vapautumistaan odotettiin useiden kuukausien ajan,” meaning that the release of the person in question was anticipated for months; or “Kansainvälinen yhteisö toivoi hänen vapautumistaan,” indicating that the international community hoped for that person’s release. The exact referent is determined by the surrounding text and pronouns.

See also vapautuminen, vapaus, vapauttamispäätökset.