Lisöihin

Lisöihin is a term used in Finnish grammar to refer to case endings that are appended to the end of a word. These suffixes change the grammatical function or meaning of the noun or pronoun to which they are attached. Finnish is a highly agglutinative language, meaning that it uses a large number of suffixes to convey grammatical information that might be expressed by prepositions or separate words in other languages.

There are fifteen grammatical cases in Finnish, each with its own set of lisöihin. These cases indicate relationships such as location, possession, direction, and manner. For example, the genitive case ending "-n" signifies possession, as in "koiran" (dog's). The partitive case ending "-a/-ä" is used to indicate a part of something or an indefinite quantity, like "omenaa" (some apple).

Other common cases and their typical lisöihin include the inessive (-ssa/-ssä, meaning "in"), elative (-sta/-stä, meaning "from within"), illative (-Vn, e.g., -hVn, -seen, meaning "into"), adessive (-lla/-llä, meaning "on" or "at"), ablative (-lta/-ltä, meaning "from"), allative (-lle, meaning "to" or "onto"), translative (-ksi, meaning "into" or "as"), essive (-na/-nä, meaning "as"), instructive (-in, rare), abessive (-tta/-ttä, meaning "without"), and comitative (-ine, meaning "with"). The nominative case, which is the basic form of the word, typically has no lisöihin. Understanding these case endings is crucial for comprehending and speaking Finnish correctly.