käändamine

Käändamine is a grammatical process used in many languages, including Finnish, Estonian, and some Germanic languages, to express various grammatical categories such as case, number, and tense. It involves changing the form of a word to indicate its role in a sentence or to convey specific meanings. In Finnish, for example, nouns, adjectives, and pronouns are declined according to their case, which can indicate the grammatical function of the word within the sentence. The cases in Finnish include nominative, genitive, partitive, accusative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, essive, translative, and abessive. Each case has its own suffix, which is added to the base form of the word. This process allows for a rich and nuanced expression of ideas, as the same word can convey different meanings depending on its case. In contrast, in English, grammatical categories such as case are typically indicated through word order and prepositions, rather than through word endings.