Even though this is not the norm, Finnish does have plenty of words ending in a consonant. Often, these words have an exceptional inflection into the cases. In this article you can find more about Finnish words ending in –s.

The capital letter on this page (such as in -Us) is used to represent both vowel harmony options. For the letter -U- that means both -u- and -y- (e.g. lupaus and lisäys).

1. Words ending in -Us

Our first group of Finnish words ending in -s are the two -Us groups. There are two groups of Finnish words ending in -Us, because they are different from each other in the way they are inflected.

Below, you can compare the two groups:

*The plural genitive is also often ”tarjousten”.

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2. Words Ending in -Os

Words ending in -os/-ös will inflect in the same way as -Us-Ukse-words. Both types are derivates from a verb. Read more about them here.

*The plural genitive is also often ”ostosten” and ”kerrosten”.

3. Words ending in -is

There are two groups of Finnish words ending in -is, which are different from each other in the way they are inflected. Please note how kallis-type words have many cases that look the exact same in the singular and the plural!

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4. Words Ending in -As

The next ground is for words ending in -As. Read more about these here!

Those are all the types of Finnish words ending in -s!

Related posts:

Words Ending in a Consonant: Overview Us-Ukse- versus Us-Ude- Word Comparison Finnish Spoken Language Numbers Kaheksan Mä Mää Mie – Pronouns in Spoken Language