Finnish Grammar Archives

The MATTA MÄTTÄ Ending – Third Infinitive Abessive Case

December 3, 2024

Have you seen verbs with the MATTA MÄTTÄ ending? The third infinitive abessive case ending expresses that action of the verb isn't performed.

Finnish Verb Stems – All Verbtypes

November 4, 2024

Morphology

More analytical students may benefit from this overview of the Finnish verb stems of all the verbtypes. Click to find out more!

Sentence types with verb in the third person singular – Incongruence

October 13, 2024

Sentence Types

Some Finnish sentence types always have the verb in the third person singular. Learn about these sentence types to make better sentences!

Ettei Muttei Vaikkei – Conjunction contractions

August 21, 2024

Morphology

Learn about Finnish contractions such as ettei, muttei, ehkei and miksei, as well as their other person forms (etten, ettet, ettemme, etc.)

Phrases with two difference cases – Pitkäksi aikaa – Samalla tavoin – Incongruence

February 5, 2024

Constructions

Find out more about phrases like [tällä kertaa], [jossain määrin] and [hyvissä ajoin] with incongruence, where words within a phrase aren't inflected the same case!

Word family of LIIKKUA LIIKE LIIKENNE – Sanaperhe

December 29, 2023

Morphology

Learn more about the WORD FAMILY of the verb liikkua! This look at Finnish derivation should help you make sense of how words are created in Finnish.

Ruoka Ruoat – Consonant Gradation where K disappears – KPT

December 3, 2023

Morphology

Click to find out more about consonant gradation where K disappears! Astevaihtelu or KPT-vaihtelu where the K disappears is tricky.

Lausetyypit – Finnish Sentence Types

December 2, 2023

Sentence Types

Click for this overview with links to the different Finnish sentence types - LAUSETYYPIT! Knowing these will help you form sentences!

Overview: Articles regarding derivational suffixes

November 30, 2023

Morphology

Learn more about the Finnish derivational system and the derivational suffixes used to create new adjectives, nouns, adverbs and verbs!

Kysymyslause – Making Questions in Finnish – Lausetyypit

October 1, 2023

Sentence Types

In Finnish, you can make questions in two ways: by using a question word like mikä, miksi and kuka, and by using the -ko/kö suffix. This is how we cre…