(Apparently when the word ends in -a and the stem has a back rounded vowel in it, the plural -i deletes the -a.)
However, I don't know which case would be more appropriate here. You see why I'm doing it in English?
However, I don't know which case would be more appropriate here. You see why I'm doing it in English?
In saunas --> saunoissa (stem is sauna, -ssa makes it inessive, -i- marks the plural, o is an additional trinket)
To saunas = saunoihin, saunoille (man, I'm getting confused myself. Basically, it ought to be "saunoiin" or something like that, but it's saunoihin. It's like very old fashioned Finnish, when people didn't like long vowels and they were skipped by adding the letter h between the vowels.)
Go to sauna = mennä saunaan.
The cases are a bit complicated because so very often you change the original word a bit. For example, star is tähti, but the genitive form is tähden, not tähtin, and when spoken, you drop the d, so it becomes tähen.
This message last edited by Lordling on 17/10/2010 at 03:45:45 PM
So I heard the Finns are quite taciturn ...
16/10/2010 07:17:46 AM
- 677 Views
I think the reason finns are silent... (and they are, btw)
16/10/2010 08:25:41 AM
- 464 Views
Don't much like vodka (1-2), don't own a knife (3), still alive (4) and can't do tango (5) *NM*
16/10/2010 11:38:55 AM
- 251 Views
Not owning a knife could be counted as a suicide waiting to happen. *NM*
16/10/2010 12:06:10 PM
- 211 Views
That's sort of weird really. I've had a knife since I was 6
16/10/2010 10:12:02 PM
- 463 Views
I can't come up with any reason to own a knife that doesn't sound totally pretentious
17/10/2010 02:41:13 PM
- 472 Views
Re: I can't come up with any reason to own a knife that doesn't sound totally pretentious
17/10/2010 03:05:28 PM
- 441 Views
You forgot going to saunas and then rolling naked in the snow. *NM*
16/10/2010 12:25:02 PM
- 200 Views
That's just something they do when the other stuff is all taken. *NM*
16/10/2010 04:39:56 PM
- 213 Views
Isn't it "going to saunaissa" and haven't we had this discussion before? *NM*
17/10/2010 02:03:22 AM
- 180 Views
"Saunissa" means "in saunas". "To saunas" would be illative pl "saunahin" or allative pl "saunille".
17/10/2010 09:47:56 AM
- 562 Views
Sorry, it's not like that
17/10/2010 02:49:27 PM
- 496 Views
Well, we have a saying that goes: "If you don't have anything good to say, be quiet."
16/10/2010 10:02:10 PM
- 420 Views
Was I the only one who immediately thought you were referencing Wheel of Time?
17/10/2010 01:13:11 AM
- 406 Views