u/Kind-Drawer1573

Cases

This topic of case declension is taught many ways in text books. While looking over this in Soumen Mestari, I realized that while they have some great examples, my engineering mind wanted more... so this is what we have:

LOCATION MODEL — bussipysäkki

FORM = STEM + ADDITION

CASE = LOCATION_TYPE + MOVEMENT_DIRECTION

Core Table

Label Direction Case Stem Addition Form Meaning
S TO Illative bussipysäkki -in bussipysäkkiin into the bus stop
S AT Inessive bussipysäkki -ssä bussipysäkissä in the bus stop
S FROM Elative bussipysäkki -stä bussipysäkistä out of the bus stop
L TO Allative bussipysäkki -lle bussipysäkille to the bus stop
L AT Adessive bussipysäkki -llä bussipysäkillä at the bus stop
L FROM Ablative bussipysäkki -ltä bussipysäkiltä from the bus stop

SEMANTIC MODEL

                    MOVEMENT AXIS

                 TO           AT           FROM

INSIDE (S)    Illative    Inessive     Elative
OUTSIDE (L)   Allative    Adessive     Ablative

MORPHOLOGY MODEL

S-series

TO      -> -in
AT      -> -ssa / -ssä
FROM    -> -sta / -stä

L-series

TO      -> -lle
AT      -> -lla / -llä
FROM    -> -lta / -ltä

Hopefully this helps folks who think about this in a more engineering way.

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u/Kind-Drawer1573 — 7 days ago