[Course Forum] "Finnish Grammar in 'Bite-Size' Pieces" by alanh

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Welcome to the course forum for http://www.memrise.com/course/138980/finnish-grammar-in-bite-size-pieces/

Please use this topic to post feedback and suggestions on the course content or to report any errors you find.

Course Description:

An introduction to basic Finnish grammar, with examples of verb conjugation, cases, etc.

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On level 24:
auto seisoo tiella (the car is on the road) should be “auto seisoo tiellĂ€â€.

If word has only middle vowels(i and e) the ending is with À.

On level 25:
auto tulee ranskalta(the car is (coming) from France) should be “auto tulee Ranskasta”.
I have just written explanation on this post.

tulen Pekkalta(I am coming from Pekka’s place) should be “tulen Pekalta”

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Thanks very much for those. I’ve made the edits.

If you ever find that you have some spare time on your hands, I would really appreciate it, if you could give my pictorial course a ‘health check’ - particularly the phrases.

You’ll find the course at: http://www.memrise.com/course/500840/a-finnish-course-in-pictures/

and the course forum at: [Course Forum] "A Finnish course in pictures" by alanh

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Terve alanh–
Level 22 kissa “on” tuossa vanhassa puussa.

there’s another, but I forgot where I wrote it down–I’ll find it soon-- meh2

ps I edited the finnish forum for you last july! I didn’t forget–just a bit busy

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Kiitos meh2. I have made that correction to Level 22.

:blush:

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Terve alanh–Level 22 “onko huonessa televisio” --Should that be “huoneessa”? meh2

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Terve meh2. Yes, indeed it should. I’ve corrected it. Kiitos paljon!

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I’ve only recently had the confidence in my Finnish to correct anyone! :slight_smile:

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Level 30–I’m confused about the verb:

“kolme ihmistĂ€ kĂ€velee kadulla”

why isn’t it “kĂ€velevĂ€t”?

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Hei meh2,

The section of my text book dealing with the partitive singular says that one of the most common situations where the partitive case is used is “after numerals more than one and after “monta” (many)”. For the particular example you have asked about, it explains that “when the numeral + noun combination is the subject of the sentence, the verb is in the singular”.

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Otherwise it just sounds really off (or just funny). (If there is a number + noun in plural)

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Kiitos–I knew I was getting too confident about Finnish. This puts me right back to a sense of incomprehension. The very logic of Subject and Verb agreeing in number couldn’t be expected to hold up. I can’t wait til I get to the plural partitive. At least I can watch “Teletubit” and understand the Finnish. :pensive:

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