Finnish Morphemes

Accusative Case

None or -n

Genitive Case

-n

Partitive Case (“Some”)

-(t)a/ä

Inessive Case (“In(side)”)

-ss(a/ä)

Illative Case (“Into”)

-(a/e)n

Elative Case (“Out of”)

-st(a/ä)

Ablative Case (“From”)

-lt(a/ä)

Adessive Case (“On”)

-ll(a/ä)

Allative Case (“Onto”)

-lle

Essive Case (“As”)

-n(a/ä)

Translative Case (“Turning into”)

-ksi

Instructive Case (“By (means of)”)

-(i)n

Abessive Case (“Without”)

-tt(a/ä)

Comitative Case (“With”)

-ne-

My

-ni

Your (Sg.)

-si

His, Her, It, Their

-ns(a/ä), -(a/ä/e)n

Our

-mme

Your (Pl.)

-nne

Nationality Marker (for most countries)

-lainen

Language marker (for most languages)

-a/ä

Emphasis marker

-pa/pä

Too, As well

-kin

Nominative Plural marker

-t

Plural marker with all other cases

-i-

Close-ended question marker (suffixed to verb)

-ko/kö

Negative marker (for adjectives like in-, un-, etc.)

epä-

Softening/Doubt Particle (“I wonder if”)

-kohan, -köhän