A Finnish Grammar

A systematic account of literary Finnish that explains its sound system, including consonant and vowel inventories, vowel length, diphthongs, and vowel harmony, and then develops its inflectional morphology and syntax with treatments of cases, possession, verb forms, and suffixation. The work provides paradigms and idiomatic examples drawn from traditional and modern texts to illustrate usage, intersperses comparative and historical remarks on related languages, and acknowledges limits in coverage of regional dialects while prioritizing clear description of forms and constructions needed to understand and analyze the written language.