Finnish Language

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Hi, welcome to Finnish Language! In this website, you will learn Finnish grammar and vocabulary; the explanations and the translations will be given both in English and in Portuguese, my mother tongue.

The sentences in English and in Portuguese were elaborated by myself – José Carlos – and almost all translations were made by Suvi Cantilena, a Finnish native speaker; grammar explanations were, in general, taken from grammar books.

BEFORE GETTING STARTED, READ THIS!

If you are a beginner in Finnish, read this summary first, as follows:

Finnish language has NO articles (the, a/an).

Finnish language has ENDINGS that, mostly, express the English preposition; notice that the preposition comes right before the noun, but the ENDINGS go right after the noun. See some examples so that you can understand it: 

“I went TO school” in Finnish goes like “I went school-TO”.

“I am AT the party” in Finnish goes like “I am party-AT”

“I came FROM Italy” in Finnish goes like “I came Italy-FROM”

“I bought it FOR Mary” in Finnish goes like “I bought it Mary-FOR”

So, in lots of examples given in this website, you will find a lot of these ENDINGS attached to nouns and adjectives, for example. 

Each ENDING represents one case in the declension system; see below the main cases and the BASIC meaning of each case; I said "basic meaning", becase each case carries more than one meaning, I mean, two or more!

SUBJETC, DIRECT OBJECT AND GENITIVE

Nominative case (–) → expresses the agent of an action;

Partitive case (a) → expresses a part of a whole;

Accusative case (n)(t)(–) → expresses the whole;

Genitive case (n) → expresses ownership, possession;

LOCATIVE CASES

Inessive case (ssa) → expresses something "inside";

Elative case (sta) → expresses something “from inside”;

Illative case (*n) → expresses something “to an inner side”;

Adessive case (lla) → expresses something “on an outter side”;

Ablative case (lta) → expresses something “from an outter side”;

Allative case (lle) → expresses something “to an outter side”;

ESTATIVE CASES

Translative case (ksi) → expresses a state of change;

Essive case (na) → expresses a state of permanence;

REMEMBER! Languages have rules, but rules are sometimes BROKEN! Have a nice study!

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