ttaivutuspääte

Ttaivutuspääte is not a standard term in Finnish linguistics; it appears to be a misspelling or variant of taivutuspääte, which means the inflectional ending or suffix added to a word stem to signal grammatical function. In Finnish, taivutus refers to inflection, and pääte denotes the morpheme affixed at the end of a word. Taivutuspääte thus covers the suffixes that mark case, number, tense, mood, voice, person, and other grammatical categories.

Finnish morphology relies on inflectional endings to form different grammatical forms. Suffixes attach to the word stem in a process called taivutus, and they interact with features such as vowel harmony and, for some word classes, consonant gradation. Noun endings (pääte) indicate number and case, while verb endings mark person and number in the finite forms, as well as tense or mood in various conjugations.

Examples help illustrate. For nouns, a genitive ending is typically -n, as in koira → koiran (of the dog). The partitive ending is commonly -a or -ä, as in koira → koiraa (partitive of dog). For verbs, present-tense endings express person and number, for instance with the verb tehdä (to do): teen (I do), teet (you do), teemme (we do), teette (you all do), tekevät (they do).

Remarks: while taivutuspääte is widely understood as “inflectional ending,” the form with two t's at the start is rare and generally regarded as a typographical error or a nonstandard variant. In standard Finnish grammar, the term is taivutuspääte.