Berliinin

Berliinin is the genitive singular form of Berliini, the Finnish name for the German city Berlin. In Finnish, Berliini is used as a proper noun for the place, and Berliinin marks possession or association, appearing in phrases such as Berlin’s museum or Berlin’s universities.

Common examples include Berliinin museo (the museum of Berlin), Berliinin yliopisto (the University of Berlin), and Berliinin kulttuuri (Berlin’s culture). The form is used whenever the head noun refers to something belonging to or characteristic of Berlin. Finnish nouns are inflected for case, so alongside Berliinin there are forms such as Berliinissä (in Berlin), Berliinistä (from Berlin), Berliiniä (Berlin as a direct object), and Berliiniin (into Berlin).

Origin and usage notes: Berliini is a loanword from the German Berlin, and Berliinin is its genitive form in Finnish. The genitive is routinely used to express possession or association in Finnish, including with city names. In regular prose, the city itself is typically referred to by the nominative Berliini, while Berliinin serves to connect other nouns to Berlin in possessive or attributive constructions. When writing about Berlin in Finnish, the appropriate inflected form is chosen according to the syntactic role of the noun, just as with other Finnish place names.