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Finnish grammar

5. Word types

5.2 Word types ending in consonants

  • Introduction

  • 1. Vowel harmony
  • 1.1 Vowel harmony

  • 2. KPT change
  • 2.1 Regular KPT change

  • 2.2 Reverse KPT change

  • 3. Cases
  • 3.1 Nominative / T-plural

  • 3.2 Genitive

  • 3.3 Partitive

  • 3.4 Locative cases – Missä? Mistä? Mihin?

  • 3.5 Use of locative cases

  • 3.6 Essive (-na/-nä) vs. translative (-ksi)

  • 4. Object
  • 4.1 Object formation and use

  • 5. Word types
  • 5.1 Word types ending in vowels

  • 5.2 Word types ending in consonants

  • 6. Verbs
  • 6.1 Personal conjugation of verbs

  • 6.2 Verb types

  • 6.3 Rection

  • 6.4 Verb + verb

  • 6.5 Past simple tense

  • 7. Plural partitive
  • 7.1 Use and formation of plural partitive

  • 8. Pronouns
  • 8.1 Personal pronouns

  • 8.2 Demonstrative pronouns

  • 9. Sentence types
  • 9.1 Sentence types

  • 10. Spoken language
  • 10.1 Vowel and consonant changes

  • 10.2 Verbs in spoken language

  • 10.3 Me passive

  • Introduction

  • 1. Vowel harmony

  • 1.1 Vowel harmony

  • 2. KPT change

  • 2.1 Regular KPT change

  • 2.2 Reverse KPT change

  • 3. Cases

  • 3.1 Nominative / T-plural

  • 3.2 Genitive

  • 3.3 Partitive

  • 3.4 Locative cases – Missä? Mistä? Mihin?

  • 3.5 Use of locative cases

  • 3.6 Essive (-na/-nä) vs. translative (-ksi)

  • 4. Object

  • 4.1 Object formation and use

  • 5. Word types

  • 5.1 Word types ending in vowels

  • 5.2 Word types ending in consonants

  • 6. Verbs

  • 6.1 Personal conjugation of verbs

  • 6.2 Verb types

  • 6.3 Rection

  • 6.4 Verb + verb

  • 6.5 Past simple tense

  • 7. Plural partitive

  • 7.1 Use and formation of plural partitive

  • 8. Pronouns

  • 8.1 Personal pronouns

  • 8.2 Demonstrative pronouns

  • 9. Sentence types

  • 9.1 Sentence types

  • 10. Spoken language

  • 10.1 Vowel and consonant changes

  • 10.2 Verbs in spoken language

  • 10.3 Me passive

Word type nen → se

The partitive ending of words ending in –nen– is –sta, and in other cases the word stem always ends in -se.

Minä olen naimisissa suomalaisen miehen kanssa.

Minulla on kaksi suomalaista kaveria.

Mitä suomalaisessa lohikeitossa on?

 

Word type in → ime

In words ending in -in the n becomes me.

avain: Missä mun avaimet ovat?

puhelin: Olen puhelimessa.

 

Word type as → aa

When the word ends in as or is, take out s and add the same vowel.

lounas: lounaan hinta

kaunis: kauniit kengät

 

Word type us → ukse

If the word ends in os, us, es or ys, the s in the word stem becomes kse. 

kerros: Toimisto on ensimmäisessä kerroksessa.

vihannes: Vihannekset ovat pöydällä.

 

Words like this are usually derived from verbs.

kysyä → kysymys → Sinun täytyy vastata kysymykseen.

maalata → maalaus → Pidän tästä maalauksesta erittäin paljon.

 

In spoken language, there are a lot of words ending in -is that are of the word type is –> kse.

kirppis: Mä meen kirppikselle huomenna.

kämppis: Asun kämppiksen kanssa Helsingissä.

 

Word type us → ude

If the word ends in uus/yys, the s in the stem of the word becomes de-.

nähtävyys: Turisti haluaa ottaa kuvan nähtävyydestä.

 

The stem of some words ending in us/ys can also be de-. Words like this are usually derived from adjectives.

terve → terveys → terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL)

sairas → sairaus → sairaudet

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