In Finnish, “suomalainen” means “Finnish person”, “ruotsalainen” means “Swedish person”, “venäläinen” means “Russian person”, but “mehiläinen” means “bee”. What does “-lainen” mean as an ending? - Quora
In Finnish, “suomalainen” means “Finnish person”, “ruotsalainen” means “Swedish person”, “venäläinen” means “Russian person”, but “mehiläinen” means “bee”. What does “-lainen” mean as an ending? - Quora
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Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian - ScienceDirect
![In Finnish, “suomalainen” means “Finnish person”, “ruotsalainen” means “Swedish person”, “venäläinen” means “Russian person”, but “mehiläinen” means “bee”. What does “-lainen” mean as an ending? - Quora In Finnish, “suomalainen” means “Finnish person”, “ruotsalainen” means “Swedish person”, “venäläinen” means “Russian person”, but “mehiläinen” means “bee”. What does “-lainen” mean as an ending? - Quora](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-1050568051-200-tmoxbjimwsrmsnisymhoiseyrzsucviu.jpeg)
In Finnish, “suomalainen” means “Finnish person”, “ruotsalainen” means “Swedish person”, “venäläinen” means “Russian person”, but “mehiläinen” means “bee”. What does “-lainen” mean as an ending? - Quora
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