Päätteisiä
Päätteisiä is a Finnish grammatical term referring to inflectional suffixes. These suffixes are added to the end of words to indicate grammatical information such as case, number, tense, and person. Unlike derivational suffixes, which can change the meaning or word class of a word, inflectional suffixes do not alter the fundamental meaning of the base word but rather its grammatical function within a sentence.
In Finnish, a highly inflected language, päätteisiä play a crucial role in sentence construction. For example,