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-ssa
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ssa SSA ssą
Finnish
Etymology
From fi urj-fin-pro *-ssa, from earlier *-s-na, from *-s- (internal locative infix; see urj-fin-pro *-s-) + urj-pro *-na locative case suffix. Cognate with myv -со, myv -сэ.
Suffix
ssä case
Marks the inessive case.
fi talo talossa
fi talo<alt:taloi-><g:p> taloissa
fi metsä -ssä metsässä
fi metsä<alt:metsi-><g:p> -ssä metsissä
fi Onko hän talossa? Is he in the house?
fi Ehdin tehdä sen kahdessa tunnissa. I managed to do it in two hours.
fi Ja nyt putket ovat tyystin öljyssä. And now the pipes are covered in oil, through and through.
fi Peruna on aivan iduissa. The potato is totally covered in sprouts.
Usage notes
See the appendix on Finnish nominal cases for more information on how the inessive case is used.
Dialectal forms include fi -s, fi -sa (especially in Western Finnish);Lauri Kettunen: Suomen murteet III A. Murrekartasto, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 1940. Map #104. (Online link https://web.archive.org/web/20230602153743/http://kettunen.fnhost.org/html/kett104.html) the form fi -ssa was adopted from the eastern dialects into the standard language.
References
Further reading
Greenlandic
Pronunciation
Suffix
v-v trunc
Marks the future tense.
kl 1992 https://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=269791&pageId=3833037&lang=da Usuni kipigaa Atuagagdliutit Nammineq tissassarluni inersinnaannginnerluni anisuualu qanoq ililluni anisassava? I wonder if he will be unable to stimulate himself to orgasm, and how will the semen be released?
Marks logical necessity.
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