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In "talossani", there's clearly two suffixes after "talo": -ssa is the suffix that marks the case -ni is the first person possessive suffix (not a case) The
by tuukkah 4y ago
In "talossani", there's clearly two suffixes after "talo":
-ssa is the suffix that marks the case
-ni is the first person possessive suffix (not a case)
The first person singular pronoun would be "minä" and its genitive case "minun" - not a suffix but including the suffix -n that marks the genitive case.
My house => Minun taloni (the possessive is visible in both words in formal Finnish: the genitive case in the pronoun, the possessive suffix in the noun)
My house => Mun talo (less formal Finnish shortens the pronoun and does not use the possessive suffix)
The fact that the possessive suffix is not a case does in no way indicate that there wouldn't be actual cases in Finnish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases