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	Finnish grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adjectives in Finnish are inflected in exactly the same way as nouns, and an adjective must agree in number and case with the noun it is modifying.
		Finnish verbs are usually divided into six groups depending on the stem type.
		Finnish verbs have past and present participles, both with passive and active forms, and an 'agent' participle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_language_grammar (4483 words)

	Fast Inference of Grammar through Clustering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Finnish in particular has grammatical structures which indicate that valuable information exists at the phonemic level, and this is the level we wish to explore.
		In Finnish, what would be prepositions in English are usually represented as cases (of which there are 14), with a large number of postpositions used in conjunction with the (usually) genitive case.
		Finnish is an agglutinative language, its words are formed from a root by appending suffixes and prefixes.
	www.eskimo.com /~hyena/finnish.html (2724 words)

	Introduction to Finnish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Finnish or suomi, as the Finns call their language, is spoken by approximately 5.5 million people, less than 5 million of whom live in Finland.
		Finnish is not related to the Indo-European languages surrounding it and is very different from them both in vocabulary and in grammar.
		The Finnish grammar is seemingly complex, with 15 cases for nouns and a rich set of verb forms.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF97/paivir/finnish/page1.html (156 words)

	Finnish grammar numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Numbers in Finnish are highly systematic, but they can throw a few surprises too.
		Long ordinal numbers in Finnish are typed in almost the same way than the long cardinal numbers.
		This is a feature of Finnish which doesn't have an exact counterpart in English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_grammar_numbers (547 words)

	A Very Short Finnish Grammar
		Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric family of languages, which is not related to any branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Finnish has a relatively simple relationship between spelling and pronunciation: generally, each letter corresponds to exactly one sound, and a letter is doubled to indicate a long sound.
		Finnish has an unusually large number of cases, although many of them are equivalent to the use of a preposition in many other languages.
	www.lysator.liu.se /language/Languages/Finnish/Grammar.html (1145 words)

	ipedia.com: Finnish language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Finnish is spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in Finland; there are small Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia and Estonia; in addition, a few hundred thousand emigrated Finns live in Sweden, and also in North America there remain communities of Finnish speaking emigrants, notably in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		It is remnant from Finnish emigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		The Finnish orthography is built upon the phonetic principle: with just a few subtle exceptions, each phoneme (distinct sound) of the language is represented by exactly one grapheme (independent letter), and each grapheme represents exactly one phoneme.
	www.ipedia.com /finnish_language.html (2654 words)

	Finnish characterized (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Grammar: First the good news: no grammatical gender, almost no irregular nouns or verbs, there is usually a simple one-to-one mapping relationship between ending and function or meaning.
		Of particular interest in Finnish grammar is the manner in which the notion of definiteness is linked with the semantics of the verb and the case of the object:
		On a more intellectual plane, Finnish is probably the most accessible non-Indo-European language for speakers of English, so it offers a unique opportunity to consider the manner in which human languages have evolved the strategies necessary for structuring their universe.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/finlang.html (857 words)

	Learn Finnish Language - Free Conversational Finnish Lessons Online - Common Finnish Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When you learn Finnish grammar or sentence structure, you will not naturally understand it when it's spoken to you.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Finnish Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/finnish.php (1872 words)

	Overview of the Finnish Language to Help You Learn Finnish
		Finnish is spoken by approximately five million people, mostly in Finland but also in the United States and Sweden.
		The Finnish language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian group of languages, which is spoken in a region that extends from Norway into Siberia and the Carpathian Mountains.
		A defining characteristic of the Finnish language is inflection: endings and cases are added to words to show their grammatical function.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/finnish/overview.htm (514 words)

	The Finnish language — Virtual Finland
		Finnish children learn Finnish as easily as their counterparts in other countries learn their mother tongue.
		In this article I discuss some features of Finnish which in my experience as a teacher of Finnish to foreigners for many years are perceived as difficult, but in reality are simply different, for example, from English.
		Secondly, I shall discuss certain points of grammar: phonology (the sound system and pronunciation), morphology (how Finnish words are put together), and syntax (what is special about Finnish sentences).
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/finnlang.html (220 words)

	talvi.net
		I assume that the typical serious student of Finnish is likely to be highly motivated and capable of writing their own, so it is a less serious omission than in a book on holiday Spanish, say.
		The pattern is the familiar braid of dialogue, grammar and vocabulary, though occasional excursions to the 45-page reference grammar disrupt the linearity a little.
		Someone who has worked diligently through Colloquial Finnish might well benefit from borrowing this from the library or finding it in a charity shop, but it would be an unwise choice to actually learn the language from scratch from.
	www.talvi.net /finland/learning.shtml (1795 words)

	Amazon.ca: Finnish: An Essential Grammar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This grammar was first published in 1983, and continues to be a favorite with students as well as professional linguists.
		This was the first book that I found and purchased on the Finnish language around a year and a half ago, and I still have not found it entirely useful because I am not ready for it yet.
		I've been a student of the Finnish language for years, and this is by far one of the most clearly informitave and easy to understand texts I've ever come across.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415207053 (829 words)

	Amazon.com: Colloquial Finnish; The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series (Cassette)): Books: D. ABONDOLO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These cassettes are recorded by native Finnish speakers and can be used on their own or to accompany the book, helping you with pronunciation and listening skills.
		Finnish is also a very beautiful languages, and the linguist J.R.R Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings) based his alven-speech upon Finnish, considering Finnish to be the most beautiful language in the world.
		It presents the grammar in a somewhat unconventional way, but it does manage to give a very thorough guide to all aspects of the Finnish grammar.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415113903?v=glance (1789 words)

	iTampere.info - wikipage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugrian language group, whereas almost all other European languages are Indo-European.
		The most remarkable difference between Finnish and other languages in Western Europe is the extensive use of case endings.
		The point is that not only case endings are typical for Finnish, but also postpositions follow the main stem of the word.
	www.itampere.info /info/LearningFinnish (583 words)

	Nightwish.com Forum > Can someone please teach me some Finnish? part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is the new sticky topic for learning finnish after the last one reached 60 pages and got closed.
		Finnish is her mother language, though, but as you already know much Finnish, I bet Estonian wouldn't cause too big problems
		She moved to Finland, to Oulu, and finally got the guts to ask a native in Swedish where the trailway station is. The native looked like he didn't understand a word (which he didn't) and just walked away.
	www.nightwish.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t18766.html (2590 words)

	Nordic FAQ - 4 of 7 - FINLAND - faqs.org.ru
		It illustrates basic grammar fairly clearly and may make teaching grammar more fun, it does not, however, give verbal rules, mainly the info is given in "boxes".
		The grammar is dreadfully complicated with the reader learning rare variations almost immediately.
		Just about passable as a pocket dictionary, but it often doesn't give an indication of whether the word is a noun, adjective or verb (not always obvious) and only gives the basic form of each word (not helpful if it has an irregular partitive or whatever).
	faqs.org.ru /en/travel/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND-5.htm (1598 words)

	FinnLinks - Languages Category
		Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is classified as an agglutinative language.
		The Finnish language is "mostly spoken the same way as it's written, meaning that one letter always corresponds to the same sound, and all letters are clearly pronounced.
		The Finnish Language Village dedicated to immersion education in the Finnish culture and language for young people 7 to 18 years of age in the summer and also for adults 19 to 90 in the spring and fall.
	www.genealogia.fi /finnlinks/show.php?cid=29 (2017 words)

	4.8 Dictionaries and other study-material
		Atkinson: Finnish Grammar (Helsinki, 1956) A course in Finnish grammar for the learner.
		Conversational Finnish in video (Helsinki/Tallinn 1992) This is the first attempt to produce an audiovisual course in Finnish.
		Particularly useful for teachers of Finnish because it quickly produces neatly formatted full paradigms which can be saved as text files for further editing.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-7.html (2415 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Finnish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is the ideal reference grammar for the student of Finnish.
		It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and also features the characteristics of colloquial Finnish as spoken in Helsinki and its surroundings.Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics.
		Finnish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of Finnish as it is used by native speakers today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415207053 (491 words)

	FINNISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE COURS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Course programme: Finnish pronunciation and the alphabet; verb categories and finite forms; single and plural in the nominative case and some other cases; simple questions and phrases; seasons; days of the week.
		The course is for students who have completed Helsinki Summer University Finnish for Foreigners level 3 (or at least level 2) or for those with equivalent skills (not for beginners).
		The basic Finnish grammar will be covered and short texts will be both read and written.
	www.kesayliopistot.fi /finncult.htm (2313 words)

	ABC-Dir: Finnish
		Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish.
		Offers both a major and a minor in Finnish, with study of the Finnish language and culture, literature, and history...
		General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other...
	www.abc-directory.com /view/finnish (302 words)

	Finnisch Lehrbücher
		Maija-Hellikki Aaltio: Finnish for Foreigners (1963) A good book to work through, it teaches grammar and vocabulary in small chunks with plenty of grammatical exercises and reading exercises.
		This makes the book useful for those who want to consolidate their knowledge of Finnish by seeing how the whole lanmguage woorks as a system as well as for those who don't want to learn Finnish at all, but are curious about its structure.
		As concerns presentation and clarity, it is at least as good as Karlsson's 'Finnish Grammar', in addition to which it is much cheaper ($14.95 in the USA) and more easily available.
	www.obh.snafu.de /~rakkaus/suomi/finbooks.html (3141 words)

	Finnish: An Essential Grammar
		Karlsson's understanding of Finnish structure is so perfect and his ability to explain it so skillful that he has produced a reference work that transfess that clarity of view to the student.
		It does do a good job of explaining grammar, however, if one is not already familiar with the language, it can tend to be a bit over one's head (as in my case).
		This book is a must for those that have started to learn the Finnish language and are confused about the technical aspects of the language.
	www.lexiconer.com /bookstore/item.php?id=391 (1008 words)

	IESAF RY © 2006 :: View topic - Finnish grammar
		In fact the latest Finnish grammar was fifty years old.
		Last week a new Finnish grammar was published and it describes all these features from the spoken language (mä, sä), the particles (onks?) and the new words from the digital world.
		However, if you wonder why the Finnish grammar from Fred Karlsson teaches a Finnish that was only known fifty years ago in some circles, and that is never spoken and written anywhere today, that book gives you the answer.
	www.iesaf.fi /sauna/viewtopic.php?t=253 (296 words)

	Finnish Lessons - WannaLearn.com
		Introduction to Finnish - sequential, text-based Finnish lessons covering pronunciation, greetings, useful phrases, numbers, days of the week and months, personal pronouns, verbs, question forming, country names, Finnish grammar, and more, also including information and historical highlights of Finland
		The Finnish Language - text-based online Finnish lessons, covering where Finnish comes from, the sounds of Finnish, how words are put together, nouns and adjectives, verbs, the awkward bits, what is special about Finnish sentences, word order and more
		BUY IT Finnish: A Complete Course for Beginners - A well-regarded instructional book on the reading, writing and pronunciation of the Finnish language.
	www.wannalearn.com /Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/Finnish (430 words)

	Land of Links Languages: Finnish
		As the term implies, Finglish is a mixture of English and Finnish.
		Finglish is spoken in daily linguistic contact between Finnish speaking immigrants and speakers of English.
		General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages.
	www.landoflinks.com /languages/finnish.html (423 words)

	Learn Finnish Language Skills with Finnish Software and Finnish Resources
		Everyone from beginners who are starting to learn Finnish to more advanced students who have been studying Finnish for a while can benefit from reading the language overview, listening to the conversational Finnish phrases in our Finnish Resources section, and playing the online games.
		This introduction to Finnish can give you an overview of the language you are learning.
		If you have tried our Finnish software program, check this part of the site to see if there are quizzes for the Finnish product you used.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/finnish/finnish.htm (367 words)

	Finnish Grammar Bits - Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Finnish, as you have probably already learned, has an abundance of cases that tend to baffle the beginner.
		Abessive (older form; often replaced by jtk ilman in Finnish nowadays)
		Comitative (older form; often replaced by jnk kanssa in Finnish nowadays)
	www.uta.fi /~km56049/finnish/cases.html (179 words)

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