yksityisyyttään

Yksityisyyttään is a Finnish noun form that refers to a person’s privacy. It is the genitive with a third-person possessive suffix of the base noun yksityisyys, which means privacy or personal confidentiality. The form is commonly used when speaking about the privacy of an individual or an entity in contrast to public or shared information.

Morphologically, the base word is yksityisyys (privacy). In contexts requiring a possessive object, the form yksityisyyttään appears, indicating “their” or “his/her” privacy in relation to the action or situation described. It is a standard construction in formal, journalistic, and legal Finnish, as well as in everyday speech when emphasizing the protection or violation of privacy.

Usage and contexts often involve discussions of data protection, surveillance, media reporting, and personal boundaries. Verbs frequently associated with yksityisyyttään include loukata (to infringe on), suojella (to protect), ja kunnioittaa (to respect). The phrase appears in debates about GDPR implementation, digital rights, and ethical standards for handling personal information.

Example: Hän piti yksityisyyttään loukkauksena, eikä tietojen jakamista hyväksytty. Translation: He regarded his/her privacy as violated, and the sharing of information was not approved. This illustrates how the form is used to attribute privacy to a specific person in a defensive or evaluative context.

See also: Yksityisyys, Tietosuoja, GDPR, data privacy.