There are a few dozen nominals ending in a consonant which form anothersmall sub-group. The two final sounds of the basi...

Derived nominals of the type ty/tn unemployed are very common. Thepartitive singular is made from the basic form. The ot...

Inflectional stem followed by:Basic Partitive Case Plural Possessiveform singular (except suffixpart. sing.)avain key av...

The third group of nominals with a basic form ending in -s is the type hyvyysgoodness. This includes all nouns with a fi...

In nominals like taivas heaven the -s of the basic form alternates with avowel identical with the preceding vowel.In aja...

There are two groups of nominals with a basic form ending in a shortvowel+s. The most common of these is the type ajatus...

The most important sub-group of these nominals is made up of those endingin -nen, the type ihminen person.The inflection...

The second group of nominals with a special inflectional stem is (almostentirely) made up of nominals with a basic form...

The rule given above also covers vesi nominals. These are a group of wordswith a basic form in -si and an inflectional s...

Kieli type nominals only differ from the kivi type in the partitive singular,where the -e- of the inflectional stem...

There are three kinds of nominals with a basic form ending in -i, all with aninflectional stem in -e. The first group, w...

Most nominals with a basic form ending in -i do not have a separateinflectional stem, but endings are attached directly...

Both nominals and verb forms are built up by the addition of endings tostems. For nominals, in general the basic form it...

The second important group of sound alternations is the set of vowel changeswhich often occur before certain endings beg...

Besides the case and personal endings dealt with above there are also certainother (derivational) endings which cause co...

Quantitative gradation(1) pp ~ p kauppa shop kaupassa in the shoplamppu lamp lamput lampstappa- kill tapan I kill(2) tt...

In verbs the personal ending generally determines whether or not consonantgradation occurs (A(d)). In addition to the ba...

The table on page 33 shows how consonant gradation applies to the wordkatu street, where the alternation is of type...

All the alternations (1)(16) are determined by the same set of conditions.Stops change in the stem of words with two or...

The long consonants pp, tt, kk alternate with the corresponding shortconsonants p, t, k. This is called quantitative con...