Editing Grammatical aspect (section)

===Finnic languages===
[[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Estonian language|Estonian]], among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of [[telicity]] between telic and atelic. Telic sentences signal that the intended goal of an action is achieved. Atelic sentences do not signal whether any such goal has been achieved. The aspect is indicated by the [[List of grammatical cases|case]] of the object: [[accusative]] is telic and [[partitive]] is atelic. For example, the (implicit) purpose of shooting is to kill, such that:
* ''Ammuin karhun'' -- "I shot the bear (succeeded; it is done)" i.e., "I shot the bear dead".
* ''Ammuin karhua'' -- "I shot at the bear" i.e. the bear may have survived.
In rare cases corresponding telic and atelic forms can be unrelated by meaning.

Derivational suffixes exist for various aspects. Examples:
*''-ahta-'' ("once"), as in ''huudahtaa'' ("to yell once") (used for emotive verbs like "laugh", "smile", "growl", "bark"; is not used for verbs like "shoot", "say", "drink")
*''-ele-'' "repeatedly" as in ''ammuskella'' "to go shooting around"

There are derivational suffixes for verbs, which carry [[frequentative]], [[momentane]], [[causative]], and [[inchoative]] aspect meanings. Also, pairs of verbs differing only in [[transitivity (grammatical category)|transitivity]] exist.