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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.
| 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 lääkärissä | to 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 asioita | to manage things |
| illallinen | supper |
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:
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 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