Finnish Grammar Archives - Page 17 of 21

Plural Location Cases – Monikon Paikallissijat

May 13, 2019

This article explains the inflection of words in the plural location cases: e.g. taloissa, taloista, taloille, taloilla, taloilta.

Missä asut? Tampereella vai Helsingissä?

May 12, 2019

Location Cases

Some place names will get -ssa added to them, others -lla. Learn how to answer the question "Missä asut?" in this blog post!

Plural Partitive of Long Words

May 12, 2019

Grammatical Cases

The plural partitive of long words has its own rules, separate from shorter words. Find out why it's lääkäreitä, insinöörejä, opiskelijoita and opettajia.

The Plural Genitive of Long Words

May 9, 2019

Grammatical Cases

The Plural Genitive of Long Words is a topic you will wish didn't exist. There are so many variants and no clear rules as to which are the most common.

Plural Partitive vs Plural Genitive

May 7, 2019

Grammatical Cases

Let's compare two of the hardest plural cases: the plural partitive vs plural genitive. They have a lot in common, which can help you in your studies.

Overview of the Passives

May 6, 2019

Verb Tenses and Moods

In this overview of the passives you can find the present passive, the past passive and the passive conditional all in one place!

Feeling Verbs – Minua Ärsyttää – Tunnekausatiiviverbit

May 1, 2019

Constructions

"Tunnekausatiiviverbi" is an awesome term which lacks a translation to English. As such, we'll call them "feeling verbs" and hope that's clear enough!