Finnish Grammar Archives - Page 19 of 21

The Third Infinitive – Kolmas Infinitiivi

March 25, 2019

"Menen nukkumaan" is an example of a phrase with the third infinitive. It's very commonly used in Finnish. Learn more about this form here!

Third Infinitive Rections – Kolmas infinitiivi

March 25, 2019

Rections

Menen nukkumaan, olen syömässä, kiellän tulemasta. Those are some examples of third infinitive verb rections. Learn more on this page!

The Potential – Potentiaali – Saanen muistuttaa…

March 23, 2019

Verb Tenses and Moods

The potential mood expresses that something is probable, but not certain. It's an extremely rarely used Finnish verbal mood.

The Passive Present Participle – TAVA-Participle

March 19, 2019

Participles

Tehtävä, luettava, sanottava, muistettava and tarvittava are all examples of the present passive participle. Learn more about it in this article!

Present Passive Participle Sentence Constructions

March 19, 2019

Constructions

"On tehtävissä", "on tehtävänä" and "vien tehtäväksi" are very interesting present passive participle sentence constructions. Learn more now!

Ordinal Numbers in the Cases – Järjestysnumerot

March 16, 2019

Interesting inflection

Ensimmäinen, toinen, kolmas... Ensimmäisestä, toiseen, kolammeksi... Learn how to inflect the ordinal numbers in the cases!

The Inflection of Numbers – Numeroiden taivutus

March 15, 2019

Interesting inflection

Finnish has 15 grammatical cases, and - surprise surprise - even the numbers can be inflected into these cases. Find out more in this article!

The Relative Pronoun Joka – Joka-pronomini

March 10, 2019

Constructions

The relative pronoun joka allows you to make more complicated sentences by adding subordinate clauses that give extra information about the main clause.

The Active Past Participle – NUT-Partisiippi

March 6, 2019

Constructions

You can make verbs into the -nut form, which is called the active past participle. This form is the used for several different functions. Find out more!

Että-Participle – Referatiivirakenne

March 6, 2019

Constructions

There are so many things you can do with particles! Learn how to use participles to replace an että-sentence in this article!