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Nouns, adjectives and pronouns
Nouns, adjectives and pronouns are called nomines. In Finnish they behave alike, that's why they are introduced under same chapter.
Nomines are inflected in cases. Here's some examples and English equivalents. NB! All the examples are very artificial, because there's no exact translation. Read all the contents to understand the case system in whole.
Singular
| nominative | talo | a house |
| genitive | talon | house's |
| partitive | taloa* | a house |
| essive | talona | as a house |
| translative | taloksi | into a house |
| abessive | talotta | without a house |
| inessive | talossa | in a house |
| elative | talosta | from a house |
| illative | taloon* | to/into a house |
| adessive | talolla | on/by a house |
| ablative | talolta | from a house |
| allative | talolle | to a house |
*=several variants.
NB!Consonant gradation!
Plural
| nominative | talot | houses |
| genetive | talojen* | house's |
| partitive | taloja | houses |
| essive | taloina | as houses |
| translative | taloiksi | into houses |
| abessiivi | taloitta | without houses |
| inessive | taloissa | in houses |
| elative | taloista | from houses |
| illative | taloihin | to/into houses |
| adessive | taloilla | on/by houses |
| ablative | taloilta | from houses |
| allative | taloille | to houses |
*=several variants
Plural marking is -t in nominative case, and otherwise i (between two vowels j)
All topics
- Vowel harmony
- Consonant gradation
- Verbs in general
- Personal forms
- Tempus
- Infinitives
- Verb types
- Negation
- Participles
- Nomines in general
- Nominative, genitive, partitive
- Essive, translative, abessive
- Location cases
- Pronouns
- Subjects and objects
- Types of senteces
- Questions
- Modifiers
- Derivation
- Orthography