Finnish:Suffixes

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Suomen kieli Finnish
Family	Sub-family	Language of	Script
Finno-Ugric	Baltic-Finnic	Finland European Union Minority In: Sweden	Extended Latin

There are a number of different suffixes available in Finnish that are attached onto the declension of a noun to mean various things.

Possessive

In Finnish, there are a number of suffixes that can be attached to the declensional forms of words to indicate possession. These are added after case, but before the particle suffixes.

Possessive Suffixes
	Singular	Plural
First Person	-ni	-mme
Second person	-si	-nne
Third person	-nsa, -nsä	-nsa, -nsä

Now, in everyday language, they are commonly substituted with the corresponding genitive pronoun. As always, "se" can be substitued for "hän" in most cases.

Possessive Suffixes
	Singular	Plural
First Person	minun	meidän
Second person	sinun	teidän
Third person	hänen / sen	heidän / niiden

Particles

These suffixes have a variety of meanings. They are added after the possessive suffix.

kin

The particle kin is used to mean "too", "also", or "as well". It is attached to a word to indicate that that also is doing something or being described in some way.

Examples:

Sinäkin tulit. You came too.

ko/kö

This particle is used to mark questions.

Examples:

Sinäkö tulit? You came?

kaan/kään

This particle is used to mean (not)...either.

Examples:

Sinäkään et tullut? You did not come either.

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Possessive

Particles

kin

ko/kö

kaan/kään

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