singular to plural in Finnish

[AndrewAndrew]

can anyone here illustrate the basics of changing from singular to plural in Finnish language?
thanks

[interleukin]

Identifying the singular form, taking away anything but the word stem, adding t.

[EP]

Identifying the singular form, taking away anything but the word stem, adding t.

Yes, that is in nominative case. Other cases act differently. I tried to look for a simple chart but found only complex ones.

[EP]

I mean, you still have to identify the stem, but endings differ.

[kalmisto]

AndrewAndrew

See this ! :
http://www.uusikielemme.fi/pluralphrases.html

To find the basic form of a Finnish word use the FINTWOL morphological analyzer of Finnish. For instance the basic form of "miehiä" is "mies" as you can see here :
http://www2.lingsoft.fi/cgi-bin/fintwol?word=miehi%E4

"miehiä" is the partitive plural of "mies" and it means "( some ) men"
"miehet" is the nominative plural of "mies" and it means "the men"

You can use the morphologiacal analyzer to find the basic form of all kinds of Finnish words ( verbs, adjectives,nouns etc )

[tuulen]

can anyone here illustrate the basics of changing from singular to plural in Finnish language?
thanks

...I tried to look for a simple chart but found only complex ones.

In English a plural can be marked by -s or -ies, but Finnish includes a variety of grammatical rules.

Congratulations, you have now discovered one of those "stumbling blocks" which can make Finnish so difficult to learn!

The good news is that the grammatical rules are quite consistent, but there are a number of such rules to learn.

[Bavarian]

Alternatively, you can use Wiktionary to look up words, as it'll have the declensions of nouns/adjectives and conjugations of verbs

Here, for example, is the page on talo which, in addition to giving the declension, also gives a link to the noun type with declensions for bisyllabic Finnish nouns ending in -o/-ö/-u/-y