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-än
-än
Finnish
Suffix
-än
- (personal) Forms the impersonal indicative present forms of verbs that include back vowels (ä, ö or y or i or e alone or with ä, ö or y), appended to the infinitive.
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- No changes in verbs that end in one ä.
- Verbs ending in -öä the beginning stem is followed by -tä- and then by this.
- Verbs ending in -ää or -eä the beginning stem is followed by -etä- and then by this.
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- (case suffix) A suffix variant for the illative singular, see -Vn.
- (possessive suffix) A variant for the third-person suffix -nsä, see the usage notes below.
Usage notes
- When the third-person suffix -nsä is appended to nouns that are in singular and plural inessive, elative, adessive, ablative, essive and abessive and plural partitive and singular partitive ending with -tä, the S and Ä are very often omitted from the suffix and the last Ä of the case suffix preceding the remaining N is doubled — resulting in this -än. In standard Finnish, both the "full" form and the shortened form are acceptable (cf. -nsa). This same omission takes very often place also in the nominal verb forms used in shortened sentences (see the meanings of -nsä) and in the adverbs requiring this suffix:
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Volapük
Suffix
-än
- A morpheme derived from the word län (“land, country”), -än is used as the suffix for a country, land (in its multiple senses), notional land, state, kingdom, empire, province or region, e.g., Bayän (“Bavaria”), Brasilän (“Brazil”), Deutän (“Germany”), Filipuäns (“the Philipines”), Frankalän (“Franconia; de: Franken, Frankenland”), Frankän (“Frankish Empire, Kingdom of the Franks; de: Frankenreich”), Fransän (“France; de: Frankreich”), Greta-Britän (“Great Britain”), Gröneän (“Greenland”), Kanadän (“Canada”), Kalifornän (“California”), Lalbanän (“Albania”), lofüdän (“the Orient, the East”), Loxitän (“Occitania”), Nigeriyän (“Nigeria”), Nula-Skotän (“Nova Scotia”), Preusän (“kingdom of Prussia”) (Lofüda-Preusiän (“East Prussia”), Vesüda-Preusiän (“West Prussia”)), Saharän (“the Sahara”), Sibirän (“Sibiria”), Skotän (“Scotland”), Sperantapükän (“Esperantoland, Esperanto-Land”), Rinän (“Rhineland”), Romayän (“Romagna”), Romän (“Roman Empire”), Tibätän (“Tibet”), vesüdän (“the Occident, the West”), Volapükän (“Volapükland, Volapük-Land”), Yapän (“Japan”), Yordän (“Jordan”), Yütlän (“Jutland”), etc.