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tarinan

Tarinan is the genitive singular form of tarina, a Finnish noun meaning "story" or "tale." It is used to indicate possession or association, for example in phrases like "tämän tarinan opetus" (the lesson of this story) or "tarinan päähenkilö" (the main character of the story). In Finnish, tarinan is formed by adding the genitive suffix -n to the nominative tarina.

Etymology and morphology: Tarina is a native Finnish word, with no widely agreed-upon cognate outside Finnic

Usage: Tarinan is common in both literary and everyday Finnish. It enables speakers to describe attributes,

Examples:

- Tämän tarinan opetus on ajaton. (The lesson of this story is timeless.)

- Tarinan päähenkilö on nuori professori. (The main character of the story is a young professor.)

- Tarinan loppu yllätti yleisön. (The ending of the story surprised the audience.)

See also: tarina, Finnish grammar, genitive case.

languages.
Tarinan
functions
as
a
grammatical
marker
of
possession
or
relation
within
noun
phrases,
and
it
appears
in
a
wide
range
of
expressions
and
compounds,
such
as
tarinan
kerronta
("the
narration
of
the
story"),
tarinan
loppu
("the
end
of
the
story"),
and
tarinan
arvoitus
("the
mystery
of
the
story").
origins,
or
components
associated
with
a
particular
story.
The
same
noun
can
take
other
cases
to
express
different
relationships,
for
example
tarinaan
(illative,
into
a
story)
or
tarinasta
(elative,
from
a
story).