FromProto-Finnic*-ssa, from earlier*-s-na, from*-s- (internal locative infix; see Proto-Finnic*-s-) +*-na(locative case suffix). Cognate withErzya-со(-so),-сэ(-së).
-ssa (front vowel harmony variant-ssä,linguistic notation-ssA)
- The marker ofinessive case;in,inside
- talo > talossasg, taloissapl
- metsä > metsässäsg, metsissäpl
Onko hän talossa?- Is hein the house?
Ehdin tehdä sen kahdessa tunnissa.- I managed to do itin two hours.
Ja nyt putket ovat tyystin öljyssä.- And now the pipes arecovered in oil, through and through.
Peruna on aivan iduissa.- The potato is totallycovered in sprouts.
- Seethe appendix on Finnish nominal cases for more information on how the inessive case is used.
- Dialectal forms include-s,-sa (especially in Western Finnish);.[1] the form-ssa was adopted from the eastern dialects into the standard language.
-ssa (v-v?,truncative?)
- Marks thefuture tense.
- Marks logical necessity.
