Finnish declension

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This is from the English Wikipedia article on accusative:

Uralic languages[edit] Finnish[edit] According to traditional Finnish grammars, the accusative is the case of a total object, while the case of a partial object is the partitive. The accusative is identical either to the nominative or the genitive, except for personal pronouns and the personal interrogative pronoun kuka/ken, which have a special accusative form ending in -t. For example, the accusative form of hän (he/she) is hänet, and the accusative form of kuka (or ken) is kenet. The major new Finnish grammar, Iso suomen kielioppi, breaks with the traditional classification to limit the accusative case to the special case of the personal pronouns and kuka/ken. The new grammar considers other total objects as being in the nominative or genitive case.

All I'm asking is that you return the nominative-accusative singular form into the template. Why is that so difficult?

Hekaheka (talk)21:36, 24 March 2014

All I'm asking is why the nominative form is called an accusative as well. I'm not currently convinced that it belongs there.

I started a discussion in the BP about it.

CodeCat21:43, 24 March 2014