Käändedega

Käändedega is a Finnish term referring to words that have been inflected with a case ending. Finnish is an agglutinative language, meaning that grammatical functions are expressed by adding suffixes to a word stem. These suffixes, or case endings, indicate the grammatical role of the noun, pronoun, or adjective in a sentence, such as its relationship to other words in terms of location, direction, possession, or action.

There are a significant number of grammatical cases in Finnish, each with its own set of endings that attach to the word stem. For example, the nominative case, which typically marks the subject of a sentence, often has no ending or a simple vowel ending. The genitive case, indicating possession, adds endings like -n. The partitive case, used for indefinite quantities or as the object of certain verbs, has endings such as -a/-ä or -ta/-tä. Other cases denote location (inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative), movement towards (illative), movement away from (elative), and various other relational meanings.

Understanding käändedega is crucial for comprehending Finnish grammar. The correct application of case endings allows for flexible sentence structure, as the function of a word is clear from its ending rather than solely its position in the sentence. This system allows Finnish to express complex relationships between words with a high degree of precision. The study of these inflections is a fundamental part of learning the Finnish language.