The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in the Northern Marianas" is Pohjois-Mariaaneilla.
| Inflection of Pohjois-Mariaanit (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | Pohjois-Mariaanit | |
| genitive | — | Pohjois-Mariaanien | |
| partitive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneja | |
| illative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | — | Pohjois-Mariaanit | |
| accusative | nom. | — | Pohjois-Mariaanit |
| gen. | — | ||
| genitive | — | Pohjois-Mariaanien | |
| partitive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneja | |
| inessive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneissa | |
| elative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneista | |
| illative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneihin | |
| adessive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneilla | |
| ablative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneilta | |
| allative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneille | |
| essive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneina | |
| translative | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneiksi | |
| abessive | — | Pohjois-Mariaaneitta | |
| instructive | — | Pohjois-Mariaanein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||