The ablative ending is -lta ~ -lt, which is added to the inflectional stem inboth singular and plural and causes consona...

The three cases presented above, the inessive, elative and illative, are theinternal local cases: talo/ssa in the house,...

The illative has three different endings: -Vn and -hVn (where V is always avowel identical with the immediately pre...

The elative ending is -sta ~ -st, which is added to the inflectional stem andcauses consonant gradation in the same way...

The inessive ending is -ssa ~ -ss; in the singular this is added directly to theinflectional stem (1820), and in the plu...

Six of the 15 Finnish cases form a sub-system of their own since their basicfunction is the expression of place and dire...

There are some expressions of quantity which are similar to objects in thatthey take partitive or accusative endings in...

When is each accusative ending used? We can formulate three rules:(1)(a) Luen kirja/t. Ill read the books.Kansa valitsee...

The accusative is not a uniform morphological case form as such, but acollective name given to a certain set of cases wh...

Finnish does not have independent possessive pronouns as such, markingpossession for the different grammatical persons;...

The genitive often marks the possessor, belonging to someone or something,or origin.Presidenti/n nimi on Ahtisaaari.The...

The genitive plural is the most complex of the Finnish case forms. The mostcommon endings are -den (which can always be...

The genitive singular ending is always -n, which is added to the inflectionalstem. As the genitive ending consists of on...

There are several prepositions and a few postpositions which require thepartitive for the word they modify, e.g. the pre...

The partitive is used in expressions of quantity, i.e. after numerals and wordslike monta many, paljon much, vhn (a) lit...

A complement is a constituent occurring after the verb olla, expressing somecharacteristic of the subject, e.g. nainen a...

The cases of the object are partitive and accusative, as the cases of the subjectare nominative and partitive. The accus...

It is helpful to compare the use of the partitive with that of the nominative(25.3): these two cases are semantically co...

In the plural the partitive has two endings, -a ~ - and -ta ~ -t, which areadded to the inflectional stem after the plur...

32.1 PARTITIVE SINGULARIn the singular the partitive has three endings: -a ~ -, -ta ~ -t, -tta ~ -tt.The first two also...