Verb Tenses and Moods Archives - Page 3 of 3

Overview of the Passives

May 6, 2019

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

April 6, 2019

Why is there no future tense in Finnish? How do you express intent when you can't use a tense for it? Learn how Finns talk about future events!

March 31, 2019

"If I would have known, I wouldn't have come" This sentence contains the perfect conditional. Learn more about how to form it in this article!

March 23, 2019

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

February 18, 2019

The past tense - or the imperfect tense - is used for when something is completely over with. Find out how it is conjugated in Finnish right now!