Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Finnish feelings in a nutshell

One of my students once said that Now I know why Finns don't talk about their feelings very much. The grammar is so complicated! I have to admit that one can have surprisingly many options to say almost the same thing:

  • Minä olen sairas. - I am ill.
  • Minulla on sairas olo. - I have an ill feeling. 
  • Minusta tuntuu sairaalta. - I feel ill. 
  • Tunnen itseni sairaaksi. - I feel myself ill.

Here are all my posts about the topic so far:



More posts where I have collected several posts into one:



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My name is Hanna Männikkölahti. I am a professional Finnish teacher who gives private online lessons and simplifies books into easy Finnish. Follow this blog, if you want to be the first one to know when I post something new.  If you want to subscribe to my newsletter, you can do it here


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