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Kotona - At home

Your relatives always want to know how are you. Here you learn how to tell about your recent life.

Matti saapuu kotiin. Äiti kysyy häneltä kuulumisia.

Lexicon           
saapua to arrive
saapua to arrive
vielä still
seurustella to date, to be with
erota to broke up, so split
tyttö girl
ahkerasti hard; työskennellä ahkersti - to work hard
terve healthy, well
yskä cough
käydä lääkärissäto see a doctor
mennä ohi to pass
itsestään by itself
vaatteet chlothes
muistaa to remember
pukeutua to dress
lämpimästi warm
lähteä leave
ulos out
täytyä must
hoitaa asioitato manage things
illallinensupper

Nut-participle

Participles are verb forms, wich behave like adjectives. In English, you get participle by adding -en or -ed after the verb, in Finnish you add -nut. . (or -nyt, because of the vowel harmony)

In plural, -nut is -neet:

If the stem ends with consonant, the -n assimilates with the previous consonant:

Perfect tense

The nut-participle is important, because perfect tense is formed by it. This is very similar to English: you use olla-verb in right form (olla = to be, to have) and nut-participle.

Imperative

Imperative is used in commands. You can easily form imperatives, if you know the 1.st singular form: you leave out the last n, and you have the imperative.

The negation verb is älä in imperative



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