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Cases in Finnish

The Finnish language has about fourteen or fifteen cases for nouns. Most of them correspond to English prepositions roughly as follows: case suffix English prep. sample word form translation of the sample nominatiivi - talo house genetiivi -n of talon of (a) house essiivi -na as talona as a house partitiivi -(t)a - taloa house (as an object) translatiivi -ksi to (role of) taloksi to a house inessiivi -ssa in talossa in (a) house elatiivi -sta from (inside) talosta from (a) house illatiivi -an, -en etc into taloon into (a) house adessiivi -lla at, on talolla at (a) house ablatiivi -lta from talolta from (a) house allatiivi -lle to talolle to (a) house abessiivi -tta without talotta without (a) house komitatiivi -ne- together (with) taloineni with my house(s) instruktiivi -n with (the aid of) (talon) with (a) house Notes 1. nominatiivi (nominative) is the case of a subject and has no ending in the singular; in plural it has t

Examples of simple, common words and phrases in Finnish

Finnish English Some greetings hyvää huomenta good morning hyvää päivää good afternoon (or morning) hyvää iltaa good evening hyvää yötä good night terve! hello! hei! / moi! hi! näkemiin good bye hauska tavata! nice to meet you kiitos thank you olkaa hyvä 1) please (when asking for something, e.g. "olkaa hyvä ja antakaa - -" "please give me - -") 2) here you are (when giving something) kuinka voitte ? how are you kiitos hyvin I'm fine, thank you Some important words kyllä yes ei no minä, sinä, hän I, you, he/she me, te, he we, you, they yksi, kaksi, kolme 1,2,3 neljä, viisi kuusi 4,5,6 seitsemän, kahdeksan 7,8 yhdeksän, kymmenen 9,10 sata, tuhat

Pronunciation of Finnish in a Nutshell (for linguists)

The following table presents the basic phonetic values of letters in Finnish. Legend: 1. The first column shows a letter. 2. The second column gives the regular pronunciation using an IPA symbol. 3. The third column gives the regular pronunciation using Usenet IPA Ascii symbols, i.e. Ascii characters used as surrogates for IPA characters in contexts where the character repertoire is limited to Ascii. Warning: such notations have not been defined rigorously, so the information in this column is not very reliable. 4. The fourth column contains some notes on the pronunciation, including irregularities. If you are not familiar with IPA notations, please see my description of Finnish pronunciation in plain (?) English. a É‘ A often described as [a] but normally [É‘], due to opposition with [æ] b b b often close to or identical with [p] c k k [s] before e, i, y; occurs in foreign words only d d d dialects usually don’t have this sound e e e more accurately, [e̞] (lowered [e]) f f f som

Finnish Pronunciation

Finnish pronunciation is rather regular as compared with many other languages. Generally, one letter corresponds to one sound in a fixed manner. This document describes the sounds roughly. On a closer look, there are several exceptions, some of which are listed here. This document tries to describe Finnish pronunciation in simple terms. There is also Pronunciation of Finnish in a nutshell (for linguists) , which uses special (IPA) symbols and terms. The Finnish language has very regular pronunciation. There is almost one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. However, some sounds are a bit difficult to produce for foreigners. The phonetic values of letters resemble the original (Latin) ones, not those occurring in English. Both vowels and consonants can be short (written with one letter) or long (written with two letters). The length is distinctive , i.e. there are (a lot of) words differing only in the length of a sound. For instance, you should pronounce "lakki

A Short Introduction to the Finnish Language

How does Finnish relate to other languages? The Finnish language, spoken mainly in Finland but also by people of Finnish origin in Sweden and other countries, belongs to the Fenno-Ugric group of languages , which is a part of the Uralian family of languages. Other Uralian languages include: Estonian , which is rather near to Finnish ; Hungarian , which is very different from Finnish, with a fairly small number of related words ; and several languages spoken in Russia, mostly by small ethnic groups. The Uralian family of languages is possibly related to Indo-European languages (such as English, German, Swedish, Latin, Russian, Hindi, etc), but the relationship is highly debatable. The arguments are based on a few similarities which might, according to other scholars, be based on language universals, loanwords, or pure coincidences. – Note that some similarities in vocabularies are caused by relatively new loanwords which were taken into Finnish from Swedish due to strong cultural

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Remove MS Removal Tool (Uninstall Guide)

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