This category of my website consists of all articles related to syntax – the arrangement of words and phrases within a sentence. This includes Finnish sentence types, rections and a large amount of articles on certain phrase constructions.
The relative pronoun joka allows you to make more complicated sentences by adding subordinate clauses that give extra information about the main clause.
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!
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.