Substantiivipääteitä
Substantiivipääteitä, often translated as noun suffixes or case endings, are grammatical elements attached to the end of nouns in Finnish to indicate their grammatical function within a sentence. These endings are crucial for conveying relationships such as possession, location, direction, and the object of an action. Finnish is an agglutinative language, meaning that suffixes are added to a base word, and each suffix generally carries a single piece of grammatical information.
There are a multitude of substantiivipääteitä in Finnish, covering various cases. The nominative case, which typically
Other significant cases include the inessive (stative location, "in"), elative (movement out of, "from"), illative (movement