Päättymän

Päättymän is a Finnish noun form that appears as the genitive singular of the word päättymä. Päättymä is a relatively specialized term meaning an ending, termination, or the final part of something. In linguistic or formal texts, päättymä can refer to the ending that marks a grammatical category or the conclusion of a process or event. Because it is a grammatical inflection rather than a common everyday term, päättymän is primarily encountered in technical writing, grammar discussions, or dictionaries.

In usage, päättymän tends to appear in phrases that describe the relationship of an ending to another element, such as "päättymän merkitys" (the meaning of the ending) or "päättymän syntaksi" (the syntax of the ending). However, many writers would choose more common terms in everyday language, such as pääte (suffix) to refer to a word-ending or päättyminen to refer to the act of ending. The form can also occur in other grammatical cases and numbers, as dictated by Finnish morphology.

Etymologically, päättymä is built from the base related to ending or finishing, with the usual Finnish noun-forming suffixes. The genitive singular päättymän expresses possession or association with the ending in question.

See also: pääte, päättyminen, kielioppi, morfologia.

References: Kielitoimiston sanakirja; Suomen sanakirja.