Finnish grammar

One day he discovered a Finnish grammar book.

Slang words obey normal Finnish grammar, regardless of their etymology.

See also Finnish grammar.

"the large grammar of Finnish") is a reference book of Finnish grammar.

In Finnish grammar, the momentane is a verb aspect indicating that an occurrence is sudden and short-lived.

It took Mrs Smith nearly a week before she could get her hands on a Finnish grammar, but then there was no stopping her.'

Please refer to the article on Finnish language grammar for more about verbs and other aspects of Finnish grammar.

In Finnish grammar, some toponyms receive external locative suffixes, especially those named for bodies of water, as in Seinäjoella.

Finnish grammar, on the contrary, allows the regular production of a series of verbal derivatives, each of which involves a greater degree of indirection.

The basics of Finnish needed to fully understand this article can be found in pages about Finnish phonology and Finnish grammar.

According to traditional Finnish grammars, the accusative is the case of a total object, while the case of a partial object is the partitive.

Yet the words remain indisputably Finnish, incorporating Finnish grammar and mostly obeying Finnish phonotactics.

Traditionally, Finnish grammars have considered, on syntactic grounds, the accusative to be a case unto itself, despite its being identical to the nominative or genitive case.

The Finnish grammar and most Finnish words are very different from those in other European languages, because Finnish is not an Indo-European language.

He described the finding of a Finnish grammar book as "entering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before".

Diego Marani, New Finnish Grammar translated from the Italian by Judith Landry (Dedalus)

Although it is generally referred to as the passive ("passiivi") in Finnish grammars, it may more appropriately be referred to as the fourth-person form of a verb.

He fell in love with the unique tongue and his early attempts at inventing what would eventually become Elvish were heavily influenced by Finnish grammar, vocabulary, and vowel harmony.

The major new Finnish grammar, Iso suomen kielioppi, breaks with the traditional classification to limit the accusative case to the special case of the personal pronouns and kuka/ken.

When he was a student at Oxford, his hobby was creating new ones out of Gothic and Finnish grammar and roots (some of these authentic-sounding languages later appeared in his books).

Since English and Finnish grammar, pronunciation and phonetics differ considerably, most loan words are inevitably sooner or later calqued - translated into native Finnish - retaining the semantic meaning.

His most famous novel, New Finnish Grammar (Nuova grammatica finlandese), has been translated into several languages and has received the Grinzane Cavour literary prize in Italy.

Whether the object of a passive verb should be termed the subject of the clause has been debated, but traditionally Finnish grammars have considered a passive clause to have no subject.

However, as one would expect from an agglutinative language, the word order is quite free and non-neutral word order can be used to stress some parts of the sentence or in poetic text, as in Finnish grammar.

Even though the construction is quite common in colloquial Finnish, little attention has been paid to it in Finnish grammars, as it has mostly been regarded as an exceptional variant of the negative clause.