vedensä

Vedensä is a Finnish grammatical form built from the noun vesi (water). It represents the third-person possessive construction meaning “his/her/its own water.” The form is created by attaching the possessive suffix -nsä to the stem vesi, yielding vedensä. This suffix pattern is part of standard Finnish possessive morphology, where the third-person singular possessive suffix marks ownership by a third person.

In use, vedensä functions as a possessive determiner/pronoun embedded with the noun, indicating water that belongs to someone or to a subject previously mentioned in the discourse. It is typically contrasted with the genitive or partitive forms of vesi, which express different relations such as possession by non-specific ownership (vesi a piece of water) or partitive meaning (some water). Vedensä thus conveys a concrete sense of ownership tied to a specific individual or entity.

The form is most common with the word vesi due to its monosyllabic, vowel-heavy structure, but Finnish possessive morphology applies similarly to other nouns. Spelling and pronunciation follow standard Finnish rules for possessive suffixes, and vedensä should be understood as a standard, idiomatic way to refer to water that belongs to someone in ordinary speech and writing.

See also: vesi, veden, vettä, possessive suffixes in Finnish grammar. Further reading can include Finnish grammar resources that discuss noun inflection and the range of possessive forms across different noun classes.