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

I just realized that I have a post called Participles in a nutshell   and Passive in a nutshell , but nothing about infinitives ! Older gram...

Do you know the meaning of these  proverbs ? Scroll down for the clumsy translations.:) Sitä  saa mitä tilaa.  Ei savua ilman tulta. ...

The E-infinitive, or the grammatical structure  formerly known  as a second infinitive , exists in two different cases:  instructive and in...

The official name of what I normally just call the basic form of a verb is the basic form of the A-infinitive. After reading this post you...

Syömään! Nyt nukkumaan! Pyyhkimään! I'd say that those are the most common uses of the MA-infinitive in any Finnish family with smal...