Originally Posted by basurero
The nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, infinitives, and participles do have 15 cases, yes.
For example, let's take the word "auto" (a car):
(I'll use the Finnish names for the cases, because I have no idea of their names in English)
nominatiivi auto, autot (a car, cars)
akkusatiivi auton, autot (a car, cars; машину )
genetiivi auton, autojen (car's, cars')
nominatiivi auto, autot (a car, cars)
partitiivi autoa, autoja (a car, cars... this is hard to translate. It is usually connected to a verb's aspect)
essiivi autona, autoina (as a car, as cars)
translatiivi autoksi, autoiksi (into car, into cars -- as in "transform into a car" etc.)
inessiivi autossa, autoissa (in a car, in cars)
elatiivi autosta, autoista (out of / from a car, out of / from cars)
illatiivi autoon, autoihin (into a car, into cars)
adessiivi autolla, autoilla (this can be used to describe ownership: у машины есть)
ablatiivi autolta, autoilta (from a car, from cars -- assuming one was not inside the car, but somewhere near it)
allatiivi autolle, autoille (to a car, to cars -- once again, not inside the car, but near it)
abessiivi autotta, autoitta (without a car, without cars)
komitatiivi autoineen (with his/her/their car/cars)
instruktiivi autoin (ugh, this is hard... the most common usage of this is jalan -- by foot )
Though this might sound hard, you can get along without knowing many of these. We get many exchange students to my school every year, and after a year's stay they usually speak Finnish very well already. So don't be afraid!
Vincent Tailors:
I had no idea what you were talking about, but found out. The words are just gibberish sounding like Finnish.