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A brief introduction to the Finnish language and its features.
Proto-Uralic
Proto-Finnic-Ugric
Finnish
Hungarian
Estonian
Saami
Language Features:
- No grammatical gender
- No gendered pronouns; hän = he/she
- No definite/indefinite article
- Extensive use of inflection
- (Inflection: "hatt" -> "hatten")
Verb Conjugation!
Standard Forms
- puhu (speak)
- puhu/a (to speak)
- minä puhu/n (i speak)
- minä puhu/i/n (i spoke)
- minä ole/n puhu/nut (i have spoken)
Verb Conjugation!
Special Forms
- minä puhu/i/sin (I would speak)
- minä puhu/nen (I might speak)
- minä ole/n puhu/va (I am to speak)
Verb Conjugation!
Plurals
- minä puhu/n (i speak) ➡ me puhu/mme (we speak)
- minä puhu/i/n (i spoke) ➡ me puhu/i/mme (we spoke)
Noun Cases
Grammatical
- Nouns are inflected to indicate
what is happening with the verb
in a sentence. - Talo: "House"
- Talo/n: "House's"
- Talo/a: "house" (as an object)
Noun Cases
Internal Locative
- Talo/ssa: "in the house"
- Talo/sta: "from in the house"
- Talo/on: "into the house"
Noun Cases
External Locative
- Talo/lla: "at/on the house"
- Talo/lta: "from the house"
- Talo/lle: "to/onto the house"
Noun Cases
Marginal
- Talo/na: "as a house"
- Talo/ksi: "turn into a house"
- Talo/in: "using the house"
- Talo/tta: "without a house"
- Talo/ine: "[in combination] with the house"
Noun Cases
Possessive
- Talo/ni: "my house"
- Talo/si: "your house"
- Talo/nsa: "her house"
- Talo/mme: "our house"
- Talo/nne: EnglishException "deres hus"
- Talo/nsa: "their house"
Noun Cases
Plurals
- Talo/t: "houses"
- Talo/ja: "houses" (as objects)
- Talo/jen: "houses'"
General Use Suffixes
- Talo/pa: affirmation "det var jo et hus!"
- Talo/han: exposition "et hus, vet du"
- Talo/ko?: "the house?"
- Talo/kin: "the house, too"
- Talo/kaan: "[not] the house, either"
Case Composition!
- Talo/i/-: plural infix operator!
- Stem(plural)(case)(possessive)(general)
- Talo/sta: from the house
- Talo/i/sta: from the houses
- Talo/i/sta/ni: from my houses
- Talo/i/sta/ni/ko?: from my houses?
- Talo/i/sta/ni/ko/han?: [I wonder if it's] from my houses?
Case Composition: Verbs!
- Muista: remember
- Muista/a: to remember
- Muista/a/kse: as far as is rememberable
- Muista/a/kse/ni: as far as I can remember
- Muista/a/kse/ni/ko: as far as I can remember?
Slutt.
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