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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.
u/Kind-Drawer1573 — 7 days ago