Finnish learning thread!

[FinnishViking]

Ah i misunderstood what you were meaning.

If you were writing the letter at that moment it would be "Yritän kirjoittaa kirjettä." where kirje transforms  to a "partitiivi" which essentially shows that the object is in middle of some ongoing action.

So for example: Ostan jonkin verran leipää / I'm buying some bread.

Here the base form Leipä transforms to Leipää because it is part of an action. I at least think that's how it goes.

[Ann Marie]

Wow.  I am afraid for the letter I sent!     Hopefully I won't be judged too badly.

[Bobriha]

Well, when you are learning new language, stuff like making mistakes and forgetting words/grammar/everything just happens. Moreover, it happens all the time. It is nothing to loose your heart of.

[Ann Marie]

Well, when you are learning new language, stuff like making mistakes and forgetting words/grammar/everything just happens. Moreover, it happens all the time. It is nothing to loose your heart of.

Kiitos.  You are right of course.  I have a history of setting goals unreasonably high, then feeling terrible when I don't reach them.  Have to remember that it's most important to keep going, even if I have to take baby steps instead of giant ones.

[Bobriha]

Pyydän apua. Mitä ovat kuuleet merkitsee? En voi löytää kieliopista mitään samannäköistä . Ehkä olen tyhmä...

[Laufey]

Pyydän apua. Mitä ovat kuuleet merkitsee? En voi löytää kieliopista mitään samannäköistä . Ehkä olen tyhmä...

Looks like a typo - should it maybe be "ovat kuulleet"? In that form it would mean "they have heard".

[Bobriha]

Yes, you are right. I've missed second "l". And I have remembered at last that it is perfect tense's plural form.
Minä olen varmasti tyhmä. Ja hidas! 

[Laufey]

Bobriha: Hahah, etkä ole! Se oli vain kirjoitusvirhe.

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Hahah no you're not! It was just a typo.

[Bobriha]

But I should know perfect tense already! And yet I didn't recognize it when met it. It's just I constantly tend to forget there are another endings but -nut/-nyt.

[Laufey]

Bobriha: ei haittaa, sitä sattuu kaikille kieltenopiskelijoille kielestä riippumatta.

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Doesn't matter, it happens to all language learners not depending on the language.

[Pessi]

So for example: Ostan jonkin verran leipää / I'm buying some bread.

Here the base form Leipä transforms to Leipää because it is part of an action. I at least think that's how it goes.

Or because it's an undefined part of a bigger whole. Like "lautasella on puuroa", there's porridge on the plate -> there's an undifined part of a bigger unity of porridge on the plate, compared to "puuro on lautasella", the porridge is on the plate -> it's all the porridge that's been cooked or an otherwise specified amount/sort of porridge.

Finnish: tai koska se on epämääräinen osa isompaa kokonaisuutta. Niin kuin "lautasella on puuroa", there's porridge on the plate -> lauatsella on määrittämätön osa isommasta puurokoknaisuudesta, verrattuna lauseeseen "puuro on lautasella", The porridge is on the plate -> kyseessä on koko keitetty puuroannos tai muuten määritelty puuromäärä/-laji.

It has inspired me with a new plan for studying Finnish.  How to say,
"Honestly, I tried learning some Finnish, but I hurt myself.  Do you speak English?"

"Oikeasti, yritin oppia vähän suomea, mutta satutin itseni. Puhutko englantia?"

[Ann Marie]

Hei Pessi!  Mitä kuuluu?  You haven't been here much lately.

Tytärnija hyväksyttiin laulukurssi.  Ah, I was going to write more in Finnish but it's nearly 3am.  Days need to be about 8 hours longer.

[Kuuskytkolme]

Tytärnija hyväksyttiin laulukurssi.

Did you mean "Tyttäreni hyväksyttiin laulukurssille"? You should check out how vowel harmony and consonant gradation work in Finnish.

The -ja/jä ending corresponds to the -er/or ending in English, in other words it makes a noun out of a verb (dance -> dancer/tanssia -> tanssija, visit -> visitor/käydä -> kävijä) so I don't know what you were trying to express with it.

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Tarkoititko "Tyttäreni hyväksyttiin laulukurssille?" Sinun kannattaisi tarkistaa miten vokaalisointu ja astevaihtelu toimivat suomessa.

-ja/jä loppu vastaa englannin -er/-or loppua, toisin sanoen se tekee substantiivista verbin (dance -> dancer/tanssia -> tanssija, visit -> visitor/käydä -> kävijä) joten en tiedä mitä yritit ilmaista sillä.

[Ann Marie]

Did you mean "Tyttäreni hyväksyttiin laulukurssille"?

I'm sure I did.  :-P

You should check out how vowel harmony and consonant gradation work in Finnish.

Yay links!  Kiitos.

The -ja/jä ending corresponds to the -er/or ending in English, in other words it makes a noun out of a verb (dance -> dancer/tanssia -> tanssija, visit -> visitor/käydä -> kävijä) so I don't know what you were trying to express with it.

I... Honestly have no idea where... Oh!  I remember.  When I have my computer I'll try to explain where I got that, it's too hard for me to do stuff on my phone.

Thank you for the feedback.  I need so much help, heh.


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Tarkoititko "Tyttäreni hyväksyttiin laulukurssille?" Sinun kannattaisi tarkistaa miten vokaalisointu ja astevaihtelu toimivat suomessa.

-ja/jä loppu vastaa englannin -er/-or loppua, toisin sanoen se tekee substantiivista verbin (dance -> dancer/tanssia -> tanssija, visit -> visitor/käydä -> kävijä) joten en tiedä mitä yritit ilmaista sillä.

[Ann Marie]

Ok, I think I understand where I went wrong with most of that, except "tyttärni".  E before ni after a consonant?  Forgot ä instead of a at end.  I was trying for partitive.  https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/finnish-cases.html  Daughter was the one being accepted, so wouldn't she be the object?  ... oh.  She was accepted, not her was accepted.  Ok then.

I still don't get why the t was doubled in the middle.  It's not even at the end of the word...  *whimpers*  there's so much I don't understand.  Um, I mean, I will go look at those links now, since apparently the page I'm mostly using for a reference is not sufficient for me.