tähteen
Tähteen is a form related to the Finnish noun tähti, which means star. In standard Finnish, tähti inflects across cases and numbers as part of a typical Finnic noun paradigm. The most common inflected forms you will encounter for star include tähti (singular nominative), tähden (singular genitive), tähteä (singular partitive), and tähtien (plural genitive), among others such as illative, inessive, and translative forms in appropriate contexts. The exact spelling and endings depend on the grammatical purpose of the sentence.
The form tähteen itself is not among the standard inflectional endings most learners memorize for tähti. In
Etymologically, tähti derives from Proto-Finnic roots related to words for “star” in neighboring Finnic languages, such
In use, tähti and its standard inflected forms appear in scientific writing, media, poetry, and conversation