Words Ending in -Sto/-Stö Some nouns can be altered by adding -sto at the end of them. The new word will mean a collection (multitude) of the old one. Saari is for exam… Read More Finnish Vocabulary 14 huhti 2019
Words ending in -tar – Kuningatar, Jumalatar Some nouns allow you to add -tar/-tär to them in order to make the person depicted female. The base word is generally a word that doesn't expl… Read More Finnish Vocabulary 9 huhti 2019
Words Ending in -nta/-ntä Words ending in -nta usually have a verb at the base of them. These words usually mean the act of doing something, and as such often are used … Read More Finnish Vocabulary 9 huhti 2019
Words ending in -nto/-ntö Words ending in -nto usually have a verb at the base of them. To create a word with the -nto ending, you take the weak stem of the verb and ad… Read More Finnish Vocabulary 9 huhti 2019
Us-Ukse- versus Us-Ude- Word Comparison Finnish has a fairly large amount of words that end in an -s. These words can be divided into several groups based on their inflection and ori… Read More Finnish Grammar 29 maalis 2019
Vowel Harmony Exceptions – Poikkeuksia The vowel harmony rules are fairly clear and apply to most Finnish words. However, there are certain groups of words that do not follow these … Read More Finnish Grammar 28 maalis 2019
Vowel Harmony – Vokaaliharmonia R… Vowel harmony, in Finnish vokaaliharmonia or vokaalisointu, is something that influences every verb and noun that you conjugate or inflect. It… Read More Finnish Grammar 28 maalis 2019
Verb-Based Words Ending in Us-Ukse- Finnish has a lot of words ending in -us/-ys (we use a capital letter for the -u- in Us to indicate that it can be both -u- and -y-). In this … Read More Finnish Vocabulary 24 maalis 2019
Words Ending in -is – Kallis Kaunis … When it comes to words that end in -s, Finnish has a large variety. While they all have that -s in common, the meaning and inflection of these… Read More Finnish Vocabulary 24 maalis 2019
Words ending in -uus/-yys (UUs-UUde-) There are a great deal of nouns that have an adjective as their base. The most common way to derive a noun from an adjective is to give it the… Read More Finnish Vocabulary 23 maalis 2019
