Mutta – muta – muuttaa but – mud – to move Sata – sataa – saattaa hundred – it is raining – to see someone off Pay attention to the differences between short and long sounds: If you don´t you might not get your message through.
It is very important to keep them separate when spelling and pronouncing. There are long and short sounds (and letters) in Finnish. blue, do, moon, shoe – the vowel sound is the same but the spelling is different.) The preceding word has to have a certain ending.įinnish is a phonetic language: each written letter is always represented by the same sound and each sound is written with the same letter. But most of them are put after the word, not before. We do have words which are used the same way as English prepositions. The basic characteristics – and the basic difference to Indo-European languages – is that Finnish expresses different grammatical meanings mainly by adding endings and suffixes to a word. German der, die, das).Įven the pronoun hän ´he, she´ is used for both sexes.ĮNDINGS AND SUFFIXES INSTEAD OF PREPOSITIONS OR OTHER INDIVIDUAL WORDS English a, the).įinnish words have no grammatical gender (cf. Therefore, its structure and vocabulary are very different from the Indo-European languages.ĭo not try to compare Finnish with your mother tongue (unless it happens to be Estonian, which is closely related to Finnish) Instead, empty your mind and take Finnish as it comes – a different but an exciting language!įinnish has no articles (cf. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric family of languages, unlike most of the other languages spoken in Europe.
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