ABSTRACT
These four word classes take the same endings, they are inflected in the same way. In addition to derivational suffixes, Finnish nominals can take four kinds of endings: number and case endings, possessive suffixes, and enclitic particles. The main features of all these will be introduced here, and they will be discussed in more detail in later chapters. For the purpose of understanding how Finnish words are made up, it is important to get a grasp of their maximal structure and see how the endings follow one another in a fixed sequence. Occasionally, there may be even four or five endings occurring one after another in the same word.
