Estonian affixes in Ingrian Finnish

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Riionheimo (2002; 2010). Note that Finnish and Estonian are closely related.

2 tense (and person) markers

  • -p ‘third person present’, e.g. maksa-a-p ‘it costs’, istu-u-p ‘he sits’, tullo-o-p ‘he comes’
  • -si ‘past’, e.g. ve-i-si-mme ‘we took’, osta-si-it ‘they bought it’, jouta-si-mme ‘we were in time’