päätaivutusluokkaa
Päätaivutusluokkaa is a Finnish linguistic term referring to a system of noun inflection in certain Finno-Ugric languages, particularly in Estonian and its related dialects. It describes a classification of nouns based on how they change their form, or inflect, in different grammatical cases. Unlike some other grammatical systems that might categorize nouns by gender or declension patterns, päätaivutusluokkaa focuses on the characteristic endings or vowel/consonant changes that occur when a noun is used in different grammatical roles, such as nominative, genitive, partitive, or illative.
This concept is primarily relevant to the study of Estonian grammar and its historical development. While standard