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Have you seen or heard the expression ei välttämättä ?  It means not necessarily.   Välttää is to avoid something.  Välttämättä is a  ma inf...

How can Finnish adjectives be intensified with a prefix?  First, here's a list of adjectives and adverbs. Do you know which prefix would...

Perillä is one of those place adverbs that has only three forms. Very likely the expression has something to do with perä , which is back a...

Tarpeeksi and riittävästi both mean enough. Here's something more about the words:  Tarpeeksi tarvita - to need something tarve - a nee...

Sometimes we all have a bad day and need the expressions  olla tukossa and olla jumissa.  Tukossa = Niin, että jokin ei mene läpi jostain  ...

Here's a post about different ways to express withoutness in Finnish. It can be done with a preposition ilman , a derivational ending -...

Ammatti is usually easy to learn, but ammattilainen and ammattimainen are confusingly close to each other. I hope that this post is helpfu...

Into is excitement. Innoissaan is excited, or excitedly. "Kivaa", hän sanoi innoissaan. - "Fun", he said excitedly...

The difference between uudelleen and uudestaan is something that my advanced students ask often. The difference is tiny, but it is there:...

Here's a list of expressions that you can use when things (or quite often clothes) are not the correct way. First, see if you have heard...

Sometimes Finnish is so easy. The English about is either the the adverb  noin or the ending sta / stä,  depending on the sentence. Abo...

Just a small about  niin, nain, näin and noin: I have a separate posts about these two: niin - like that, so   nain - I married, I ...

Vastaan is a handy postposition. I'd say that these two are the most common uses. For more examples, check out  Kielitoimiston sanakir...

How to talk about nowhere and somewhere in Finnish? I hope this small post is useful to you. Mistä? - From where? ei mistään - from nowhere ...

Nothing is ei mikään , but of course, that's not enough. Here's ei mikään in nine different cases : Nominative ei mikään Mikä se o...

Lisää is more, additionally.  Enemmän is also more, but it's the comparative form of paljon, a lot . Here's how to use them in ...

These eighteen (!) words are known to be quite tricky, so be patient.  All the examples are from my previous posts about these three pronou...

Here's a small post about sitten, jälkeen and myöhemmin.  I hope that this is helpful, not confusing. Sitten = then Sitten on mun v...

Here's a post about ympäri.  For more examples, take a look at  Kielitoimiston sanakirja . If you want to read exciting local news, try ...

I don't usually offer my Finnish teaching services to strangers on the street, but every time I hear someone saying normaalisesti , I ...