ssapääte
Ssapääte is a term that appears in some Finnish linguistic and educational texts to refer to the group of locative suffixes that begin with the letter s, most notably the inessive suffix -ssa/-ssä. The name is a descriptive label rather than a widely standardized technical term in formal grammar, and many grammars simply call these the locative or inessive suffixes.
The primary function of the ssapääte is to express location or state of being, roughly corresponding to
Orthographically, attaching the ssapääte to a stem often yields a double s at the boundary, as in
Relation to other suffixes is important: ssapääte forms are part of the broader system of locative and