Finnish Grammar
This page contains all the Finnish grammar subjects that Uusi kielemme currently covers. There are separate sections on verbs, nouns, constructions, phonetics and the grammar of spoken language.
Please note that these Finnish grammar topics are not listed in the order you should study them. While it is generally true that the column on the left contains the most basic subjects, this does not always hold true.
The idea of this page is that it works as a reference material for Finnish grammar: whenever you have questions about a subject, you can look up more information on this page. Within one article, there can be information fit for beginners as well as more complicated information for advanced learners.
Table of Contents
The Conjugation of Verbs
THE CONJUGATION OF VERBS
- The present tense
- The past tenses
- The future tense
- The conditional mood
- The imperative mood
- Consonant gradation
- The infinitives
The Inflection of Nouns
THE INFLECTION OF NOUNS
- The location cases
- Consonant Gradation
- The plural partitive
- The plural genitive
- The plural location cases
- “Here” and “there”
- The inflection of…
Finnish Sentence Constructions
SYNTAX: Sentence Constructions
Finnish Sentence Types
- Overview of sentence types
- Possession (having something)
- Necessity sentences (täytyy)
- On mentävä -sentences
- Existential sentences
- Generic sentences
- Change and result sentences
- Tuloslause vs. muutoslause
- Subordinate clauses
- Relative pronoun joka
- Syntax of täytyy-sentences
- Conjugation of täytyy-sentences
- Sentence types with the verb
in the third person singular
Constructions
- [olla + -lla] (olla kahvilla)
- [olla + -ssa] (olla piilossa)
- [olla + -uksissaan]
- [x:llani, x:llaan] (pahoillaan)
- [olla + -ltaan] (ammatiltaan)
- [olla + -ttavissa] (tavattavissa)
Clitics – Liitepartikkelit
Rections
- What are rections?
- Verb + noun rections
- Verb + verb rections
- Noun rections
- Adjective rections
- Noun + noun rections
- Noun + verb rections
- Verb rections with että
- Timespans: mistä mihin
- Use of infinitives and participles
Grammatical Functions
- Object & Complement
Advanced
Other Areas of Finnish
Other Areas of Finnish
Spoken language
- Mä mää mie – Pronouns
- Tää toi se – Taivutus
- Ne puhuu puhekieltä
- Menen nukkuun – Third infinitive
- Mun tarttee syödä
- Verbs in spoken language
- Spoken language passive
- Spoken language questions
- Spoken language numbers
- Spoken language pronunciation
- Syntax of spoken Finnish
- South Ostrobothnian dialect
- Overview