- nominative suomalainen: Minä olen suomalainen. - I am Finnish.
- genitive suomalaisen: Tänään on suomalaisen musiikin päivä. - Today (8.12.) is the Finnish music's day, the day of Finnish music.
- partitive suomalaista: Älä pakota minua kuuntelemaan suomalaista musiikkia. - Don't force me to listen to Finnish music.
- plural partitive suomalaisia: Onko sinulla suomalaisia kavereita? - Do you have Finnish friends?
Once you know the genitive, just drop the n and add the ending you need.
- essive: Pidätkö itseäsi suomalaisena? - Do you consider yourself Finnish?
- elative: Tykkäätkö suomalaisesta ruoasta? - Do you like Finnish food?
With plural, you also have to put an i between the word stem and the ending. Sometimes the i will cause the previous vowel to change or disappear. (And certain plural forms can be even trickier.)
- adessive: Miksi suomalaisilla hevibändeillä on niin paljon faneja Saksassa ja Etelä-Amerikassa? - Why do the Finnish heavy bands have so many fans in Germany and South America?
All the nationalities, some colours and a lot of adjectives end with nen. Here's my random list of words that belong to this group:
- nainen, ihminen, lautanen, lapanen - a woman, a human being, a plate, a mitten
- punainen, sininen, keltainen, valkoinen - red, blue, yellow, white
- iloinen, surullinen, onnellinen, erikoinen, erityinen, tyytyväinen, viimeinen - glad, sad, happy, exceptional, particular, content, the last
- kreikkalainen, mongolialainen, ghanalainen, kongolainen - Greek, Mongolian, Ghanaian, Congolese
Also, if you make a verb into a noun, it ends with nen.
- leipoa > Leipominen on hauskaa! - Baking is fun!
- siivota > Vihaan siivoamista. - I hate cleaning.
- imuroida > Tykkäätkö imuroimisesta? - Do you like vacuuming?
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About the author of this blog:
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8 comments:
I remember one of the first patterns that I managed to make out when I got to finland was the -nen to -sen transformation and I remember thinking how odd it was that the change would occur so "far" back (as in, I thought three letters in was "far") This was before I was actually trying to learn Finnish, though.
Before also I tried to find the rule to make noun from verb besides 4. infinitiivi. But it is so difficult. because even verbityypi 1 has many ways to get noun. For example
verbityypi 1 kirjoittaa-kirjoitus,
hakea-hakemus,
heijastaa-heijastin,
laskea-lasku
jne
verbityypi 2 käydä-käynti
verbityypi 3 epäillä-epäilys
verbityypi 4 halata-hali
verbityypi 5 tarvita-tarve
Because it is very useful and helpful. Hope I can get a good answer from u . Paljon kiitoksia .
Oh my.. I have to study that and get back to the topic! :) I've never thought about the verb types from this point of view. Here's a link that you might find interesting: http://www.finnlectura.fi/verkkosuomi/Morfologia/sivu2722.htm
Especially the point 7)Teonnimet.
For anybody interested in word formation, 'Miten sanoja johdetaan' by Anneli Brown, Anna-Liisa Lepäsmaa and Leena Silfverberg is a good book. http://www.kirjasi.fi/epages/Kirjasi.sf/fi_FI/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Kirjasi/Products/9789517920063
before I collect many verb ,but i lose the paper. i have found some rules....pity pity
Today I borrowed this book from libary. It is wonderful book, so I cant stop reading it . I already read 20 pages. Thanks so much ...
Hyvä, Aiko! :) Munkin pitäisi ostaa se kirja itselleni.
I think punainen is derived from puna.
Kannata ostaa booky.fi:sta. Se on halvin. Hinta on 32.20 €, ilmainen toimitus. En minä tarvitse ostaa sitä. Haluaisin ostaa <> ensin. :) Mun kirjanostoslista on täynnä.
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