taivutuspäätteellä

Taivutuspäätteellä, often translated as a "bending suffix" or "flexional ending," refers to suffixes that are added to a word to change its grammatical function within a sentence. These suffixes indicate grammatical categories such as case, number, tense, or person. They are a fundamental feature of inflectional languages, including Finnish, where the term "taivutuspäätteellä" is commonly used.

In Finnish, for example, nouns can be inflected into 15 different cases, each marked by a specific suffix. These cases express relationships like location (inessive, elative), direction (illative, allative), possession (genitive), and the object of a verb (partitive, accusative). Verbs also take taivutuspäätteellä to indicate person (who is performing the action – I, you, he/she/it, we, you all, they), number (singular or plural), and tense (past, present, future).

The presence and nature of taivutuspäätteellä are key characteristics that distinguish inflectional languages from languages that rely more on word order or separate particles for grammatical meaning. Understanding these endings is crucial for comprehending the structure and meaning of sentences in languages that employ them. The system of taivutuspäätteellä allows for a high degree of grammatical nuance and flexibility in word order, as the relationships between words are often explicitly marked on the words themselves.