Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Finnish declension

I noticed only now that you have dropped nominative-accusative singular forms from your formula. In Finnish grammar accusative is a slightly complicated issue. When I went to school in the 1970's we were taught that there's no accusative in Finnish, but we use nominative and genitive instead, depending on the mode of the verb. Active forms except imperative use genitive and passive forms plus imperative use nominative. Current convention is that there's indeed an accusative but it looks in singular like nominative or genitive depending on verb mode. In plural it always looks like nominative. I think both nominative-accusative and genitive-accusative should be shown in the table as they are now shown e.g. in the Finnish section of wrap.

This is slightly outside the topic, but for some reason the linguists do not recognize partitive-accusative, although an object in a sentence describing incomplete action is in partitive:
 * Ostin auton
 * I bought a car.
 * Ostan auton
 * I will buy a car. (the action is regarded as complete, because the mind is set)
 * Osta auto!
 * Buy a car!

But:
 * Ostan autoa.
 * I'm in the process of buying a car