Finnish Language
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(EM PORTUGUÊS - IN PORTUGUESE)
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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