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 | | In Finnish, the Partitive case has four main manifestations:(i) on a direct object, a bare Partitive indicates an unbounded quantity (ii) its occurrence on a direct object can indicate Imperfective aspect (iii) it occurs on the complements of certain quantifiers, the “weak” quantifiers (iv) it occurs on the direct object of a negated transitive verb. |
 | | Traditional grammarians have found it difficult to characterise precisely the circumstances under which it alternates with Accusative case on direct objects (Denison, 1957), and from the point of view of modern case theory, it is not clear exactly how or where it is checked, or even if it is structural or inherent. |
 | | For example, the Inessive case, when it is to be added to talo, ”house” is —ssa,giving us talossa, ”in the house”, but when it is to be added to kylä, ”village”, is —ssä, giving kylässä, ”in the village”. |
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