Contents
All the content on this site.
Lessons
Here is a collection of dialogues in Finnish. After each part you will find a lexicon and a piece of grammar.
- Finnish language
- Lesson 1: Tavatessa - Meeting people
- Lesson 2: Finnish language lessons
- Lesson 2: Kahvilassa - At a cafe
- Lesson 3: Introduce yourself in Finnish
- Lesson 4: Planning
- Lesson 5: Buying tickets
- Lesson 6: How to tell about yourself
- Lesson 7: Family
- Lesson 8: At home
- Lesson 9: Telephone conversation
- Lesson 10: Directions
- Lesson 11: Being late
- Lesson 12: In the restaurant
- Lesson 13 - Express your opinion
- Lesson 14 - Talk about the weather
- Lesson 15 - Planning a party
- Lesson 16 - Shopping clothes
Vocabulary
- Words and phrases
- Beginner's phrases in Finnish
- Colors
- Nationalities translated to Finnish
- Names of the cities
- Numbers in Finnish
- Time in Finnish
- Animals
- Parts of the body
- Months and days of the week
- Vegetables and fruits in Finnish
Grammar
Here you can find some main topics on Finnish grammar. The articles are arranged by the topic. They are linked together, so you can find diffenent "paths" through the articles. You might want to start from the introduction, pronunciation, verbs in general or nominals in general.
- Finnish Grammar
- Finnish Phonetics
- Introduction to Finnish grammar
- Vowel harmony
- Consonant gradation
- Finnish verbs
- Personal conjugation
- Negation verb
- Tempus of the verb
- Imperfect past tense
- Infinitive vebs forms
- 3rd Infinitive
- Finnish verb types
- Va-participles
- Nut-participles
- Passive in Finnish language
- Nouns, adjectives and pronouns
- Nominative, genitive, partitive: singular
- Essive, translative, abessive
- Location cases
- Pronouns: question and person words
- Subject and object
- Sentence types
- Questions in Finnish
- Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs
- Typical Finnish sentence structures
- Derivation, other suffixes
- Orthography
- Genitive plural
- Partitive plural
- Imperatives commands or requests.
- Conditional
- Types of nominals
- Connecting phrases and sentences - Conjunctions are little words which can connect sentences.
- Emphasizing particles - even these are really important too
Exercises
Here youn can find a collection of exercises to test your vocabulary, grammar, listening or reading skills. The exercises are made by using Hot Potatoes (at least most of them).
- Finnish language exercises
- lesson 1 Greetings
- lesson 2 Vocabulary
- lesson 2 Translation
- lesson 2 Numbers
- lesson 3 Introducing
- lesson 3 Translation
- lesson 4 vocabulary
- lesson 5 vocabulary
- lesson 5 translate
- lesson 6 travelling
- lesson 7 translation
- lesson 8 Vocabulary
- lesson 9 Expressions
- lesson 9 Translate
- lesson 10 Expressions
- lesson 10 Translation
- lesson 11 Translate
- Colors Remember the colors?
- Animals What is this animal in Finnish?
- Months Put the months in order
- "I like..." Tell me what you like and use the right case
- Time Select the right time
- Translate Speak, live, be
- Translate Different sentences about coffee.
- Location cases Where, from where and where to?
- Illlative Going somewhere?
- Vowel harmony With or without dots?
- Ko-question Yes/no -questions
- Questions about locations with pronouns
- Consonant gradation with genitives
- Partitive case fill in the gaps
- Partitive or not?
- Imperfect Convert sentences from present into past tense
- Negative sentence Negatives in past.
- Third infinitive MA infinitive
- Verbtype 1 verbs in a context
- Verbtype 2 verbs in a context
- Verbtype 3 verbs in a context
- Verbtype 4 verbs in a context
- All verb types, present verbs in a table
- All verb types, imperfect - verbs in a table Perfect - Perfect tense
- Dictation 1 Listen and type what you hear
- Colors Listen and select the right color
- Dictation 2 Animals
- Reading comprehension Read a short text and answer the questions
- Vocabulary related to "Kirja"
- Vocabulary related to "Maa"
- Vocabulary related to "Oikea"
- Vocabulary related to "Soittaa"
- Vocabulary related to "Yksi"
- Vocabulary related to "Kuulua"
- Vocabulary related to "Tietää"
- Vocabulary related to "Seura"
- Vocabulary related to "Lähteä"
- Vocabulary related to "Sopia"
Culture
There are some texts concerning Finland and Finnish culture. They are little bit more advanced from texts for beginners. There is also a little lexicon in every text.
- Finnish language and culture
- Mikael Agricola
- Finnish food culture
- Finnish Christmas
- Collogial speech
- Story of a bear
- Kalevala
- Finno-ugric people
Teachers's material
- Materiaalia opettajille
- 1. Kaupungista maalle
- 2. Puhelu menneisyydestä
- 3. Maarit tutustuu Anttiin
- 4. Maarit ja Antti suunnittelevat matkaa
- 5. Antti tutustuu miliiseihin
- 6. Antti lähtee omille teilleen
- 7. Erkillä on alibi
- 8. Isän vieras
- 9. Erkin vankina
- 10. Maaritin poika
- Sotagallup
- Kulttuurigallup
- Opiskelugallup