Editing Finnish grammar (section)

==== Relationship between locative cases ====
As in other [[Uralic languages]], locative cases in Finnish can be classified according to three criteria: the spatial position (interior or surface), the motion status (stationary or moving), and within the latter, the direction of the movement (approaching or departing). The classification captures a [[morphophonology|morphophonological]] pattern that distinguishes interior and surface spatial position; long consonants ({{IPA|/sː/}} in {{lang|fi|-ssa}} / {{lang|fi|-ssä}} and {{IPA|/lː/}} in {{lang|fi|-lla}} / {{lang|fi|-llä}}) express stationary motion, whereas a {{IPA|/t/}} expresses "movement from". The table below shows these relationships schematically: 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Schematic summary of locative cases
! rowspan="3" | Spatial position
! colspan="3" | Motion status
|-
! rowspan="2" | ''Stationary''
! colspan="2" | ''Moving''
|-
! '''''approaching'''''
! '''''departing'''''
|-
| '''''Interior'''''
| inessive ('in')<br/>{{lang|fi|-ssa / -ssä}}
| illative ('into')<br/>{{lang|fi|-Vn}}
| elative ('out of')<br/>{{lang|fi|-sta / -stä}}
|-
| '''''Surface'''''
| adessive ('on')<br/>{{lang|fi|-lla / -llä}}
| allative ('onto')<br/>{{lang|fi|-lle}}
| ablative ('off from')<br/>{{lang|fi|-lta / -ltä}}
|}