Paikallissijakäyttö
Paikallissijakäyttö, often translated as "local case usage" or "locative case usage" in English, refers to the grammatical system of expressing location within the Finnish language. Finnish has a rich set of grammatical cases, and several of these are dedicated to indicating where something is situated, where it is moving to, or where it is coming from.
The primary cases involved in paikallissijakäyttö are the inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, and allative. The
The adessive case, ending in -lla/-llä, expresses being on or at a surface or location, for instance,
Mastering paikallissijakäyttö is crucial for accurate and nuanced expression of spatial relationships in Finnish, distinguishing between