Finnish grammar is logical — once you learn the patterns, you can build almost any sentence. No gender, no articles, just patterns.
In Finnish, negation uses a special negative verb ei that changes based on person. The main verb goes into a special base form (the connective form).
Finnish verbs follow predictable patterns based on their infinitive ending. Here are the two most common types:
Remove the final -a/-ä to get the stem, then add personal endings.
Remove -da/-dä, then add endings. The stem vowel is often doubled in 3rd person.
Finnish has 15 grammatical cases — word endings that replace what English expresses with prepositions (in, on, to, from…). Here are the 6 most important for beginners:
12 questions to test what you just learned. Good luck!