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Since Finnish is an inflected language, word order within sentences can be much freer than, for example, English. In English the strong subject–verb–object order typically indicates the function of a noun as either subject or object although some English structures allow this to be reversed.
pineapple nota I apa fetch anana nota apa pineapple I fetch I fetch a pineapple British Sign Language (BSL) normally uses topic–comment structure, but its default word order when topic–comment structure is not used is OSV. Marked word order This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged ...
Finnish nominals, which include pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, are declined in a large number of grammatical cases, whose uses and meanings are detailed here. See also Finnish grammar . Many meanings expressed by case markings in Finnish correspond to phrases or expressions containing prepositions in most Indo-European languages .
Finnish is written with the Latin alphabet including the distinct characters ä and ö , and also several characters ( b, c, f, q, w, x, z, å, š and ΕΎ ) reserved for words of non-Finnish origin. The Finnish orthography follows the phoneme principle: each phoneme (meaningful sound) of the language corresponds to exactly one grapheme ...
For example, in Finnish, it is found in the following circumstances, with the characteristic ending of -a or -ta: After numbers, in singular: "kolme talo a " → "three houses" (cf. plural, where both are used, e.g. sadat kirjat "the hundreds of books", sata kirjaa "hundred books" as an irresultative object.)
"the large grammar of Finnish") is a reference book of Finnish grammar. It was published in 2004 by the Finnish Literature Society and to this date is the most extensive of its kind. It is a collaboration written by noted Finnish language scholars Auli Hakulinen, Maria Vilkuna, Riitta Korhonen, Vesa Koivisto, Tarja-Riitta Heinonen and Irja Alho.
Grammars of Finnish may identify words that display "inverse gradation". To understand what this means, it's useful to note that a typical gradation pattern is one where the word stem ends in a vowel, and verbal infinitives and the nominative singular of nominals displays the strong grade, while the first person singular, present tense form of ...
Pages in category "Finnish grammar" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...