Emphasizing particles
Emphasizing particles are small words which don't have any actual meaning, but they are just used to emphasizise and stress the meaning of other word. Some of these aren't even real words and cannot exist alone but only attached to another word. You never declinate or conjugate these words, so there's only one form of then.
Clitic particles
Clitic particles are a group of particles behave like suffixes. They are ment to emphasize the word they are attached to.
-kin ~ too, even
- Minäkin olin siellä.
- I was there too.
- Sinäkin Brutus!
- Et tu, Brute!
-han ~ maybe
- Minähän sanoin!
- I told you already!
-pa ~ really
- Oletpa sinä jo iso poika!
- Well aren't you already a big boy!
-kaan ~ not even
- Sinäkään et ole aina oikeassa.
- Even you are not always right.
Independent particles
toki ~ sure(ly)
- Näin on toki parempi.
- This is surely better.
jopa ~ even
- Jopa lapsi osaa tehdä sen.
- Even a child can do it.
liian ~ too (much)
- Kenkäni ovat liian pienet.
- My shoes are too small.
ihan ~ quite, very
- Tapaaminen meni ihan hyvin.
- The meeting went quite well.
Specific, idiomatic particles
- ani harvoin
- extremely rarely
- hipihiljaa
- very quietly
- ikioma
- very own
- ilkosen alasti
- totally naked
- litimärkä
- very wet
- rutikuiva
- very dry
- rättiväsynyt
- very tired
- supisuomalainen
- 100% Finnish
- sysimusta
- pitch black
- typötyhjä
- totally empty
- täpötäynnä
- totally full
- upporikas
- very rich
- vitivalkoinen
- pure white
- ypöyksin
- all alone
- ökyrikas
- filthy rich
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