Swedish affixes in Finnish

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Mägiste (1968:7).

1 nominalizer

  • -ri ‘agent noun, occupation noun’, e.g. pellkuri ‘coward’, petturi ‘cheater’

2 feminine derivational affixes

  • -inna ‘female person’, e.g. tohtorinna ‘female doctor’
  • -ska ‘female person’, e.g. seppäskä ‘tailor’s wife’

Various other affixes from Swedish are used in the slang of Helsinki, but their use is not clear.