Finnish locative system

Finnish locative system

The Finnish language has eight locative cases, and some Eastern dialects symmetrify the system with the excessive case. These can be classified according to a three-way contrast of entering, residing and exiting a state, and there are three different systems of these cases.

(The symbol "V" in the illative case denotes an epenthetic vowel, which is the preceding vowel in Finnish, e.g. "tie → tiehen", and the "-h-" elides whenever a long vowel can be used instead, e.g. "ryhmä → ryhmään".)

It is immediately noticeable from the table that the "exiting" forms ("sta/lta/nta") have the same consonant as the "residing" forms ("ssa/lla/na") added with the Finnish partitive case ending "-ta". This may be traced into a Proto-Uralic ablative ending. Also, the Finnish system is somewhat simpler than in the Hungarian language, where there is a separate system for "to the top", "on top", and "off from the top".


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