Jonne

So, how to say negative verbs, eg "I don't sing" and so on?
It is after all easy. You don't have to learn loads of different verb forms.. but a new verb , "no"

Yes, there is a verb "no" in Finnish.. Though, it isn't usually taken as a verb.. It is only used as a 'helping verb'.

I don't - Minä en
You don't - Sinä et
S/he doesn't - Hän ei
We don't - Me emme
You pl. don't - Te ette
They don't - He eivät

Suffixes are same as with normal verbs.

So, to say "I don't sing", you take "I don't" from the list above and add the ROOT of "to sing", which is "laula"
And the root of the verb is used with every person.

I don't sing - Minä en laula
You don't sing - Sinä et laula
He doesn't sing - Hän ei laula
We don't sing - Me emme laula
You pl. don't sing - Te ette laula
They don't sing - He eivät laula

Remember that you don't have to use the pronouns minä,sinä,me,te.

EXERCISE:
Translate:
She doesn't say
We don't cry
They don't buy
You don't sing
I don't ask

Then, let's move on the personal pronouns.
You know that they are

i - minä
you - sinä
s/he - hän
we - me
you - te
they - he

but can you inflect them? in cases?

For genetive:
Minun
Sinun
Hänen
Meidän
Teidän
Heidän

For partitive:
Minua
Sinua
Häntä
Meitä
Teitä
Heitä

For inessive, elative, abessive and ablative, change the word form to
minu-
sinu-
häne-
mei-
tei-
hei-
and add the suffix.

From me = Minusta, minulta
To her = Hänelle
In them = Heissä

Not very complicated.

EXERCISE:
Translate:
From you pl.
To you
In us

Meiltä teille
Minusta Sinuun
Häneltä kirjalle
Minussa on kirja

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Nendûr

En jaska elä ilman korani.


is this allright?


Sinussa herttakorttini asetaa.

and this?

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Jonne

The first sentence would be

En jaksa elää ilman koiraani.

You have to use the partitive case with the object, and infinitive with the second verb (it's a verb chain (verbiketju in finnish) and the second verb is always in infinitive.. for example, haluta juoda, jaksaa tehdä jotain (jotain=something), täytyä opiskella and so on.)

then, if you want to say 'I can't live without my dog', you use the verb "voida", which conjugates as voin, voit, voi, voimme, voitte, voivat

En voi elää ilman koiraani

the verb pystyä has the same effect, but it's usage is more difficult.

en pysty elämään ilman koiraani



then the second sentence

Sinussa herttakorttini asetaa.

sinussa=in you
herttakorttini=my hearts card
asettaa=to set

the sentence should be "Asetan sinuun herttakorttini" (I set in you my hearts card)

.. but it doesn't make much sense. You can't really set cards to anyone


questions?

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Nendûr

Jajaja... The dictionary deceived me ¬¬*

SO, if koira = dog, koiraAni = my dog (with two A's)
is it like that with all nouns that end with a vocal*? i mean, you double the last vowel?

* = vowel (It's 'spanglish', vocal = vowel in spanish)

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Jonne

Koira = dog

if you say "my dog", you just add -ni

Koirani.

Koiraani is the same word in partitive case. you usually just add -a- in the end/before the personal suffix.

Same with talo.

talo=house
taloni=my house
taloani=my house (partitive)

there are some exceptions, though, like the words ending with e.

vene=boat
veneeni=my boat
venettäni=my boat (partitive)

sade=rain
sateeni=my rain (gradation!)
sadettani=my rain (partitive)

kone=machine
koneeni=my machine
konettani=my machine (partitive)

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I had forgotten tha i had to put the partitive

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Nendûr

Of course, with nouns that end with an e, partitive is tta/ttä...
And you double the 'e'

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