Morfeemipäätettä

Morfeemipäätettä is a Finnish term used in linguistics to describe a morpheme that occurs at the end of a word. Morphemes are the smallest meaningful units of language. A morpheemipäätettä, therefore, is a meaningful part of a word that appears last. These can include suffixes, which modify the grammatical function or meaning of a word, or clitics, which are morphemes that are phonologically dependent on a preceding word but are often considered separate units.

In Finnish, morfeemipäätettä play a crucial role in inflection and derivation. For example, in the word "talossani" (in my house), "-ssa" is a case ending indicating location and "-ni" is a possessive suffix indicating "my." Both are examples of morfeemipäätettä. These terminal morphemes can change a noun's case, number, or possessor, or they can transform a verb's tense, mood, or person. Understanding the function and form of morfeemipäätettä is essential for analyzing Finnish grammar and word structure. The concept helps linguists categorize and explain the complex morphology of the Finnish language.