Attention Tuomas- I have a Finnish language question

Lots of cases, mostly.

Don’t try and learn them all (at once)

I guess "syntax" might be a better word than "grammar."

There is one interesting word order thing though that is pretty important, I think.

Because there is no definite article, a thing is shown to be definite by putting it towards the beginning of the sentence.

For vocabulary you can also use drops or even dict.cc.

Definitely something fun about learning such a different language it’s true.

I seem to enjoy it more than Hungarian.

Finns are, in general, more enjoyable than Hungarians.

Because there is no definite article, a thing is shown to be definite by putting it towards the beginning of the sentence.

See, this is fascinating to me as a fact, I love learning stuff like this about languages. But you can bet if I ever tried to speak a sentence to a Finnish person I would forget it in an instant and produce a terribly incoherent mess.

"I am with cheese, head fist."

Finns are, in general, more enjoyable than Hungarians.

I bet their goulash is worse, though.

The Duolingo Hungarian course is also notoriously bad so the Finnish approach is definitely an improvement.

xp Right, Finnish goulash is not a thing.

Finnish vodka, though

Saunas

Finnish vodka, though

I think I have finally got through my Fisu phase, I probably shouldn't go back, it'd kill me. IT'S SO GOOD THOUGH.

https://guides.brit.co/guides/make-finish-fisu-strong-menthol-sauna-alcohol

Here’s another cool thing about Finnish grammar, to express negativity or negation at least: they have a special verb which gets conjugated and does all the heavy lifting.

Fisu Sisu

Basically, Fisu and Fonal = my dream of Finland.

I see that Drops may have some quality control issues.

Or maybe not, at least not in this case.

Here’s a interesting word I just learned: luku, which means number but also means chapter and has something to do with reading.

Wiktionary seems to be pretty good for Finnish.

oh hi, I took two solid years of Finnish in college, ama

plusses:
every letter is always pronounced the same!
accent is always on the 1st syllable
no gender!

minuses:
no prepositions
words derive meaning by tacking on suffix after suffix, it can be hard to parse

I used to have an excellent Finnish-English dictionary but my college buddy who was also obsessed with the language appropriated it, I'm pretty sure it was a classbook.

words derive meaning by tacking on suffix after suffix, it can be hard to parse

see also: Quechua

Ha, my good friend and neighbor is doing some serious Kichwa studies right now.

such a cool language, and weirdly very similar to Finnish in some ways! (letters always pronounced the same, accents in same place, suffixes add meaning)

my personal pet theory is that it's all from an original Mongolian source (Finnish, Hungarian, Quechua)

Lot of extra texture detail in Wiktionary like this:

Etymology

ostaa +‎ -os. Coined by Finnish author and journalist Pietari Hannikainen.

Note the use of the connegative with the negative verb:

tule

present active indicative connegative of tulla

En/et/ei/emme/ette/eivät tule.
I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they don't come.

Käsi käden pesee.

Turpa kiinni!

En voi muutakaan.

I can see from the leaderboard that people are really making use of Clozemaster for Finnish.

https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi
Monolingual Finnish dictionary. Not for the faint of heart.

Has everything and is superfast though.

Oletko hullu?

Neljä vuodenaikaa, kevät, kesä, syksy ja talvi.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/v%C3%A4ri

Ihanko totta?

lämpö

Etymology

Back-formation from lämpöinen. Coined by Finnish physician and author Samuel Roos and Finnish professor, poet and scholar August Ahlqvist in 1845.