Finnish Grammar Archives - Page 19 of 21

The Passive Present Participle – TAVA-Participle

March 19, 2019

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!

The Active Present Participle – VA-Partisiippi

March 6, 2019

Constructions

The first of this series is the active present participle, also called the VA-participle. It's used to replace joka-sentences as well as että-sentences.

Long form of the First Infinitive – Finaalirakenne

March 6, 2019

Constructions

The finaalirakenne uses the long form of the first infinitive. Learn when to use it as well as certain phrases it appears in!

Infinitive Verb Rections – Rektiot Infinitiivi

March 6, 2019

Rections

Some verbs with (first) infinitive verb rections are haluta, osata, voida and saada. Learn more about this fairly easy group of verb rections!