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I just found this exceedingly interesting. And since i know at least one of you will find it to be interesting as well, i decided to post it.
Check it out:
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html
You can find other interesting stuff about finnish here:
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/links.html
By the way, don't ask me what all those words mean.
adios,
biterman.
thanks, I read through them and I found them very interesting.
you told us not to ask, so I won't ask, but I still have that question
Oskilian
Daaahamn! Now theres one language i think i'll skip learning.
I have to learn finnish... :)
kauppa means store I believe.... ahhh.... I just read the top. Yes it does.
kahvikuppi means coffee cup. That one is easy...
odota means wait
hei, terve, moi, and a whole slew of other things means hello or hi
kotona is home
mitä nyt means what now
and so on and so on....
It is difficult because there are only some standard conjugations... many depend on the word and its context. I have heard that most Finns don't even know the full extent of their language. When I was there I saw a sign at the iliopisto (sp) that was one word and was like 60 characters long! It is nutz... but I am having fun trying to learn it.
Finnish is a real challenge. I can tell you that.
The verbs are in and of themselves pretty easy since there's only like 2 or 3 irregular verbs, but (this is a big butt) the hard part (as if the rest weren't hard enough) is the declension of the words. The thing about this is that EVERY word declinates, including verbs, which can have up to 3 or 4 different infinitives. And the rules to this are not at all easy to implement.
It's an aglutinative language, words are made up by sticking stuff together (ie.: kauppa -store-, kaupassa -in the store-). There are different types of things you attach to the nominals (poss. suffixes, moods, enclictic particles, etc...) and the nominals have to change before you can properly add all the stuff to them.
Like the example i gave "kauppa", to add the innessive particle i had to change the pp to p, that's because "ssa" starts with two consonants. Now if you think about it, it makes sense: kaupassa as opposed to kauppassa. It gets complicated when you have to remember all the rules that determine all the changes all the particles you can add cause. For instance "in the stores", i don't know how to say that, i can't remember because the future is made up by addying "i" which causes some changes in the noun depending on certain variables but i can't remember the rules or the variables so.. bhlew :(
Suomen kieli on vitun vaikea.
I'm sure if that's right, but oh well :(
adios,
biterman.