Finnish Grammar: 5. Word types

Introduction
1. Vowel harmony
1.1 Vowel harmony
2. KPT change
2.1 Regular KPT change
2.2 Reverse KPT change
3. Cases
3.1 Nominative / T-plural
3.2 Genitive
3.3 Partitive
3.4 Locative cases – Missä? Mistä? Mihin?
3.5 Use of locative cases
3.6 Essive (-na/-nä) vs. translative (-ksi)
4. Object
4.1 Object formation and use
5. Word types
5.1 Word types ending in vowels
5.2 Word types ending in consonants
6. Verbs
6.1 Personal conjugation of verbs
6.2 Verb types
6.3 Rection
6.4 Verb + verb
6.5 Past simple tense
7. Plural partitive
7.1 Use and formation of plural partitive
8. Pronouns
8.1 Personal pronouns
8.2 Demonstrative pronouns
9. Sentence types
9.1 Sentence types
10. Spoken language
10.1 Vowel and consonant changes
10.2 Verbs in spoken language
10.3 Me passive

The last letters of a word can change when an ending is added to the word. That’s why words are divided into word types (sanatyyppi).You’ll recognize the word type by the last letters of the base form of the word.

5.1 Word types ending in vowels

inflection of words ending in i and e

5.2 Word types ending in consonants

inflection of words ending in nen, in, as, us

Finnish grammar

5. Word types

5.1 Word types ending in vowels

5.2 Word types ending in consonants