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Linglib.Fragments.Finnish.Declension

Finnish case endings #

The endings of the Finnish cases in the singular, as Karlsson's table of cases gives them, in his archiphonemic spelling: the suffix vowel A alternates by palatal harmony and the copy vowel V repeats the nearest vowel before it. A case has one ending after a stem in a short vowel, as in auto-ssa 'in a car' and auto-on 'into a car', and the partitive and the illative have alternants that the shape of the stem selects: the partitive -tA and -ttA, as in vet-tä 'water' and perhe-ttä 'family', and the illative -hVn and -seen, as in maa-han 'into the country' and Porvoo-seen 'to Porvoo'. The same endings follow the infinitives (Finnish.Infinitive).

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Implementation notes #

Which alternant a stem takes is not represented. The endings after the plural and before a possessive ending are in Finnish.Nominal.

References #

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def Finnish.Declension.endings :
Case → List (List Phonology.Segment)

The endings of each case, the ending after a stem in a short vowel first.

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    def Finnish.Declension.ending (c : Case) :
    Option (List Phonology.Segment)

    The ending of a case after a stem in a short vowel.

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      theorem Finnish.Declension.isSome_ending (c : Case) :
      (ending c).isSome = true

      Every case has an ending.