In spoken Finnish, it’s rare to see any possessive suffixes. In this exercise, you’re “translating” a spoken language sentence to its written language alternative. For example, “mun nimi” will become “nimeni” when thus made more formal. Note that you don’t include words like “minun” or “meidän” in this exercise.

All the words in this exercise get the suffix -ni. The main focus here is how these words change when you add the possessive suffix to them. Check here for the rules if you don’t know the answer.

This exercise requires you to do two things: 1) take the noun between brackets and inflect it in the inessive case (the S-missä form), and 2) add the required possessive suffix to this form.

This exercise requires you to do two things: 1) take the noun between brackets and inflect it in the partitive case, and 2) add the required possessive suffix to this form. This exercise contains a couple of more difficult word types!

This exercise requires you to do two things: 1) take the noun between brackets and inflect it in the illative case, and 2) add the required possessive suffix to this form.

The answer of each of these sentences will have the word ystävä. The possessive suffix will be -ni in all of these. The tricky part is that you will need to understand the basics of what form to use in order to do this exercise.

The answer of each of these sentences will have the word perhe. The possessive suffix will be -ni in all of these. The tricky part is that you will need to understand the basics of what form to use in order to do this exercise. Note that the partitive case of perhe is perhettä, and many of the cases will have two e‘s (e.g. perheen, perheessä, perheeseen).

The answer of each of these sentences will have the word poika. Note that poika has an exceptional inflection system (e.g. pojan, pojalla, poikaan).

This exercise contains the required question at the beginning of each sentence. Use this information to your advantage: the question word tells you what case to use for the answer.

This exercise contains the required question at the beginning of each sentence. Use this information to your advantage: the question word tells you what case to use for the answer.

Take the noun between brackets, inflect it in the case required and then add the possessive suffix!

Check the hints below this exercise if you get stuck while trying to find the right form to add the possessive suffix to!

Hints for this exercise:

1. The word koko conveys that we read the whole book, so we need the genitive case for the total object here.
2. The verb rakastaa is a partitive verb.
3. The walls of what? The possessive genitive case is required here.
4. The verb vihata is a partitive verb.
5. Where is it that we rarely eat?
6. The verb pitää will always require the S-mistä form of the noun when you like something.
7. Coffee is an ainesana (mass noun), so it will be inflected in the partitive case.
8. This sentence has a total object: you’re moving the whole television, so you need the genitive case.
9. This sentence is both negative and contains the partitive verb häiritä.
10. This question word for this sentence would be kuka (who).

No need to inflect the word in any case, just add the possessive suffix according to these rules. I’ve added a few harder wordtypes to this exercise.

No need to inflect the word in any case, just add the possessive suffix according to these rules (see section 2.4.4).

Postpositions can also have a possessive suffix added to them (e.g. behind me, with me). Don’t write minun or meidän into these boxes; just the postposition with the possessive suffix!

The pronoun toinen is often used as a “reciprocal pronoun”. If you’re new to this, please check out the specifics here. I have more exercises about toinen here.

You can read more about itse on the main website. You can also practice this topic more here on another page with interactive exercises. Bolded in this exercise is the personal pronoun, which will guide you towards using the correct possessive suffix (e.g. minun requires -ni).

Read more about miltä-phrases before doing this exercise! The form given in this exercise is the third person singular. Your job is to make it the first person singular (the -ni form).

The first sentence in this exercise contains one possessive suffix, which you will be swapping out for another possessive suffix. No other changes have to be made to these phrases.

The last exercises on this page are for advanced students! In this exercise, you will need to use the second infinitive’s missä-form, which expresses that you’re doing one thing while doing another thing. Please read more about the second infinitive before doing this exercise!

The temporaalinen lauseenvastike (temporal substitute construction) is an advanced, confusing topic meant for advanced learners. In this exercise, it’s used to condense two sentences into one in order to express that the first activity is completed before starting the second.

The agent participle (agenttipartisiippi, MA-partisiippi) is another advanced topic meant for advanced learners.