Suomen verkkokielioppi - Finnish Online Grammar
Sanatyypit - Word Types
The most common word types in Finnish language are presented in this book. Each word type has its own page. The pages are listed on the right side.
Introduction
What is a stem (vartalo)?
A stem is always used when you attach endings to the word. In most cases a word's basic form and a stem are the same: koulu ~ koulussa.
Sometimes a stem differs from a basic form
Some words have a stem
(vartalo) which differs from the nominative.
(The partitive is, however,
different and you need to memorize these three forms of words: Nominative, Partitive,
Stem).
You can recognise which
word type it is by looking at the end of the word in nominative.
This is how the types are named: e-sanat (words ending in e in
nominative: huone~huonee-),
nen-sanat (words ending in nen in nominative nainen~naise-),
i-sanat (words ending with i: hotelli~hotelli-, kieli~kiele-),
si-sanat (words ending with si: uusi~uude-) etc.