Finnish cases

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Because Finnish is an inflectional language, it has a total of fifteen cases. The two most common are nominatiivi (nominative) and partitiivi (partitive), though all cases are used in any conversation. Our friends at Wikipedia has some more information on these cases, along with a chart that is useful to understand the suffix for a given case.

There is more information on them available in the document Cases in Finnish.

Contents 1 Grammatical 2 Locative (internal) 3 Locative (external) 4 Essive 5 Marginal

Grammatical

• nominatiivi (nominative)

The nominative case is the most common in the Finnish language. It is the basic form of the noun, and no suffix is given in the singular. The plural takes on the ending -t in the nominative case. Some examples are:

'maa' = country

'auto' = car

'autot' = cars

• genetiivi (genitive)
• akkusatiivi (accusative)
• partitiivi (partitive)

Locative (internal)

• inessiivi (inessive)
• elatiivi (elative)
• illatiivi (illative)

Locative (external)

• adessiivi (adessive)
• ablatiivi (ablative)
• allatiivi (allative)

Essive

• essiivi (essive)
• eksessiivi (exessive)
• translatiivi (translative)

Marginal

• instruktiivi (instructive)
• abessiivi (abessive)
• komitatiivi (comitative)

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