Finsk på gøy!

A brief introduction to the Finnish language and its features.

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?

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