Neutral vowels


The neutral vowels in Finnish are i and e. If only i and e appear in a word, the front vowel case endings are used.  For instance, the word for language, kieli contains neutral vowels. When you want to use kieli in the inessive, it would be kielessä and not kielessa.


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