Editing Inessive case (section)

=== Dialectal variants ===
In a large part of the [[Southwest Finnish dialects|southwestern]], [[South Ostrobothnian dialect|south Ostrobothnian]], [[South Karelian dialects|southeastern]] as well as in some [[Tavastian dialects]], the suffix is simply ''-s'' (e.g. ''maas'', ''talos''), similarly to Estonian. This is an example of [[apocope]]. When coupled with a [[Possessive affix|possessive suffix]],  the result can be like in standard Finnish "''maassani, talossani''" or a shorter "''maasani, talosani''" depending on the dialect: the former is more common in Tavastian and southeastern dialects while the latter is more common in southwestern dialects.

Most [[Central and Northern Ostrobothnian dialects|central and northern Ostrobothnian dialects]] as well as some [[Southwest Finnish dialects|southwestern]] and [[Peräpohjola dialects]] use a shorter suffix ''-sa/-sä'', e.g. ''maasa, talosa''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Inessiivin päätteet|url=http://sokl.uef.fi/aineistot/aidinkieli/murteet/inessiiv.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512163104/http://sokl.uef.fi/aineistot/aidinkieli/murteet/inessiiv.html|archive-date=May 12, 2021|access-date=July 12, 2022|website=sokl.uef.fi|language=fi}}</ref>