[Vowel Harmony!] Mi | ssä = inessive case particle: "in", "inside", "within some space" Mi | hin = illative case particle: "into", "towards" Mi | stä = elative case particle: "out of", "from"
At 0:42, I can already guess what you want to say in this whole video and what these 3 words exactly mean without watching the rest of it. 😁 German also has these 3 words which are "Wo", "Wohin" and "Woher". 🇩🇪
at last! locatives have clicked into place! the endings of these three question words, which I have struggled to memorise individually, I now realise are simply different case endings. Just as helsingiin means "to Helsinki", helsingissä means "at Helsinki" and helsingistä means "from Helsinki.
Love everything you do here. Just passed my A2.1 for my Finnish citizenship application. Will continue to watch and study all your videos. You are an exceptional. Kiitos!!
The video is good! Many thanks to the author of the channel for the recommendations! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
@@KatChatsFinnish made from the heart, with love for Finnish learner and love for Finnish itself, how could they be anything else than great videos as they are. Great job.
Your explanations are really good, thank you once again for making Finnish so easy and fun! 💙 Also makes it easier to pay attention when your teacher is söpö.. 🤗
Lots of examples please. I love how you are super slow and clear and repetitive about the topic words, but its nice to hear them in lots of contexts at a natural pace. Each example differs by just one thing and mentions the topic word. Liked the "welcome to my channel intro" I wasn't trying to learn Finnish. I guess I am now.
It's cool to put your videos into real applications, I practice my adverbs and learn a lot of my vocab from listening to "Teräsbetoni" hahaha, Missä miehet ratsastaa siellä lampaat ei voi laiduntaa!! What my mind goes to, Kiitos!
Hello Dear, thank you for your help. can you please make another video on the suffixes added at the end of names of places like tori,puisto... when answering the question words you mentioned on this video?
I know its old but thank you for this video. Exstra thanks because I'm just learning English too and its not my first language but your pronounsion of words makes it easy to understand you and now I can learn finnish. Part with finnish extremely understandable too. Thank you
thanks for making this video!!! i think i’m the one that requested it. also thanks to you, i’m much more fluent in finnish and my finnish friends don’t hate me as much.
KatChats lol they just get really annoyed if i slightly mispronounce a word or if i conjugate a verb incorrectly. “noooo it’s not pidän juusto it’s pidän juustoSTAAAAAAAAAAA” “let me liiiiiiive!!!!!!!!” 😂
Hello! Yes it was really helpful, thank you so much ❤️. I just had an extra question. Can we actually use those but not in a question? If yes, which one would you use in this situation? Is it always the same as soon as it's not used as a question or it still depends on the context? Situation: "Put the pen back WHERE you found it"
Hei! :-) Beautiful and simple way to explain it! Kiitos! I have a question about "jossa". I read this in some texts when talking about where is a specific location... What does it stand for?
"Jossa" is an inflection for the word "joka" the same way as "missä" is for the word "mikä" when referring to a previous word or sentence. They are very similiar and even finns might have a hard time deciding which one to use. Both mean inside or at the thing you are referring to, usually a location. "As a relative pronoun, joka only tends to refer to the previous word or phrase, as opposed to a whole sentence (like mikä). In colloquial usage, this distinction is usually not as clear-cut." -wiktionary.org I've also learned to use "joka" when referring to a concrete thing, and "mikä" when referring to a more abstract thing. But in puhekieli you could use "mikä" (and its inflections) in almost any situation. "Mikä" can also start a question like in this video (none of the examples in the video are really referring to a previous word or a sentence), "joka" really cant, it always refers to something. Only way I can come up with "joka" starting a sentence is when it means "every", like "joka päivä" = "every day", but that doesn't have those inflections, and can't be turned into "jossa", it's a different word. Here's some more info and examples: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joka en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mik%C3%A4
As someone fairly new to learning the Finnish language, this is helpful to me, since I've been yearning to travel to Finland sometime in the future and hopefully converse effectively with the locals, and the other thing, which is translating all the songs in the Sayonara Wild Hearts soundtrack into Finnish.
This is terrific!! English used to use the words whence for where from and whither for where to. German uses woher for where from and wohin for where to. Missä connotes a question about a stationary location whereas the other two inquire about movement from or to. Mihin olet menossa instead of mihin menet and mihin ollaan menossa? Could you give more examples of this construction. Also, could you do a video giving typical sentences using- tässä - tästä - tähän tuossa - tuosta - tuohon siinä - siitä - siihen täällä - täältä - tänne tuolla - tuolta - tuonne siellä - sieltä - sinne or at least some of them. For example, bring it here/take it over there. I think you used siihen in your video about ordering coffee. Thanks.
@KatChats Finnish do you have video of S-cases and places with answering the questions with different case endings. I am currently studying Finnish Language, you help me a lot.
Thanks for this! In the example, 'Mistä tämä tuli?' What role does the word 'tuli' play? Google translate says it translates to fire/flame/light/blaze, so I'm surprised for it to be used in this phrase that doesn't seem to reference fire at all.
In that sentence "tuli" is the past tense form of "tulla" (= to become/to come) so it actually doesn't have anything to do with fire. It just happens to be spelled the same way xD Good question! :)
your explanations are really good and I can easily understand what you're trying to learn us. i love Finnish and thanks to you, it is a lot easier. Everyone always says that Finnish is super hard to learn but you make it easier and it's nice to have someone explain it where it's not just overloaded with grammatical terms and whatever
This is truly fascinating! Being inspired by this channel, I am taking Finnish in DuoLingo now. Question: can "on" be placed both in the middle and at the end of sentences? For example, if I say "missä kaupunki tuo on?" May I also use "missä on tuo kaupunki?"
I think your second example is more natural. I think the first one sounds a little awkward to my ears, but I think to answer your question, if you just swap the middle words you could say: Missä tuo kaupunki on? and that would sound just as good as Missä on tuo kaupunki. (even tho "Missä tuo kaupunki on" sounds a tad more natural) So yes :)
@@KatChatsFinnish I appreciate the reply. Duolingo keeps putting "on" at the end of these types of sentences, but your videos often have "on" in the middle. Thanks a lot for the answer!
@@brazenserpent7 changing word order usually gives little bit different meaning but not so much that you could really explain it easily, usually some poets etc use weird word orders to get some artistic effects.
Something's I'm used to from other languages (like French? Can't remember, I'm from the US and just getting back into my studies) that isn't found in Finnish is a consonant that would be at the end of Mistä" then "olet" which would make it flow better but since one change to Finnish can create an entirely new meaning I think it's also a good thing it lacks it. In English we have it with the article "a" becoming "an" before vocabulary starting with a vowel
Very clear, thank you, Kat! But one of your examples brought up another question. Would you typically use the word höyhen for a single feather? Because the word I've seen used is sulka. I actually thought that höyhen meant plumage. Which would be the word most commonly used?
Höyhen is more like a softer fluffier smaller feather and sulka would be like the bigger sturdier looking ones that come off ducks or eagles (like the outer layer) etc if that makes sense from my explanation xD
I just understand to use this not long time ago 🤣 when was studied missä/mistä/mihin i was like WTF 🥺🥺 and i like to watch your channel because in class only book language so i know speaking language from your channel ♥️
another problem at me that is how to use lla/llä or sta,stä at the end of the verbs in sentences to describe where to,from etc and the problems of the rules hVn seen etc Hopefully, you would like to make a video for this situation kiitös paljon
oh wow, I see this is an old video, it is very useful and interesting! you do that very emotionally and I like this :) and I like that thing on your hair. how many rings did you have there? :)
Learning another language through several others is funny because I was so confused at the confusion through english but then I realized my native language has pretty much equivalents 🤣🤣 ‘kde, kam, odkud’.
Well, missä can be for places too for example: "Missä Oulu on?" = Where is Oulu, and mistä can be for objects for example: "Mistä sä sait ton?" = Where did you get that. I think the main difference is that "mistä" = from where. So in that sense it refers to a place, like "from where did you get that/from where are you from etc" :D
Here's a practical example on how using missä/mihin/mistä can change the meaning of a sentence. Imagine you're traveling on a bus or something, a friend calls you and asks: Mihin oot menossa? = Where are you going? Missä oot menossa? = Where are you at? "Whats is the location you're traveling to?" vs. "What is the location you're traveling at right now?" - if that makes any sense. So with the second one your friend obviously knows where you are heading already and just wants to check how far are you at. With the first one he/she has forgot where you are traveling to altogether. :D
@@teehee2686 It is a common Finnish expression. It's indeed quite hard to translate to English, because no English person would say "Where you are going at?".
Are we ever getting a video on declining? I'm currently reading Finnish: An Essential Grammar and the chapter about declining has absolutely bodied me.
The various case endings added to adjectives and nouns such as nominative, accusative, genitive. ablative, illative, essive like asemalla for in the station.
OHHH right, yeah that's a popular request but the one video I'm scared to make. I just feel like I'll mess it up xD I'm doing research into atm so hopefully when I feel like I fully understand it enough to be able to explain it well I'll give it a go :)
@@KatChatsFinnish Well, personally, I think the actual endings are the easiest part to understand about declining. Their meanings and uses are relatively straightforward sans the partitive. The most daunting aspect of declining to me, is the stem changes. Stem changes in conjunction with consonant gradation can basically mutilate a word to be unrecognizable to my poor monolingual brain. Not to mention there are like 10 different groups of stem endings, each with their own unique changes. Learning the rules to consonant gradation was hard enough ;_;
Hei, I recently started learning Finnish and Hungarian is my mother tongue, but I'm learning Finnish in English. It's strange that these question words are also present in the Hungarian language (Hol? Hová? Honnan?), but I have to deal with the English translation.
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Moi :) When you ask missa , mihin ,mista easy :) but reply is so difficult . for missa : (-ssa , -ssä ) kauppa - kauppassa (inside) , outside (outside , biside , near , on ) - lla , -llä tori- torilla metsa (forest ) metsassa , kioski - kioskilla ( for mihin : (inside ) koulu -- kouluun , kirjasto karjastoon (outside ) tori- torille asema - asemelle ( - lle) for mista: (inside) add -sta - stä , (outside ) -lta , ltä so mixed for me :) Could you share video with us for this matter ? sorry for my bad english :)
One feature of these question words is that the same case ending will be (usually) included in your answer to the question. "Mihin menet?" "Vessaan." "Mistä tulet?" "Vessasta." "Missä olet, huhuu?" "Vessassa." (Ja huomaanpa samalla että 'vessassa' on aika hauskan näköinen ja kuuloinen sana.)
I just decided to learn finnish with you. So much fun. What do you think about the relationship between the finnish and the hungarian language? I met a finnish stewardess in Beijing about three weeks ago and she told me the number four is so similar. Nëlja and négy. Is that everything? Or is there some more easter eggs? Thanks for the videos. ;)
Can anyone explain to me the difference between "minne" and "mihin"? As I learned, "minne" also means to where, when you ask someone going to or something is going to the location. For instance Minne sinä menet? - Where are you going? I get a little confused about these 😟 Kiitos paljon!!!
For 'Where to' you can also use the word 'minne.' Minne menet?=Mihin menet?=Where are you going? I tried to come up with an example where these 2 words can't be used interchangeably and I couldn't think of anything.
Probably more abstract ideas eg. Mihin uskot? = What do you believe -> you couldn't substitute it with minne since you're not actually going anywhere :P But good point! They are in most cases interchangeable !
I lol at your funny examples. Also I’m astonished that you seem to speak both languages with little accent of the other. (Although I’m a poor judge of accent in spoken Finnish - I grew up hearing Yooper dialect and accent a lot and that, I have heard, can be pretty atrocious).
I have a question regarding S vs L, if i am saying i go to the park ( menen puistoon vai puistolle?) Which one do i use? Are there outdoor places considered indoor (i only know of one which is metsä, so answer form would be in S, metsään, metsässä, metsästä) i am assuming?
I've spent the past day binge-watching your videos - you are a godsend for those of us learning finnish with no idea where to start.
Awww thank you :)
[Vowel Harmony!]
Mi | ssä = inessive case particle: "in", "inside", "within some space"
Mi | hin = illative case particle: "into", "towards"
Mi | stä = elative case particle: "out of", "from"
Thanks for the additional info! :D
Also a quick tip to anyone who is learning Finnish: Many Finns might use "minne" instead of "mihin".
At 0:42, I can already guess what you want to say in this whole video and what these 3 words exactly mean without watching the rest of it. 😁 German also has these 3 words which are "Wo", "Wohin" and "Woher". 🇩🇪
Same in Portuguese: Onde, Aonde e Donde.
at last! locatives have clicked into place! the endings of these three question words, which I have struggled to memorise individually, I now realise are simply different case endings. Just as helsingiin means "to Helsinki", helsingissä means "at Helsinki" and helsingistä means "from Helsinki.
Exactly! :D
There is an exception with the "g" most of the time, it's actually Helsinkiin.
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@@KatChatsFinnish mmmmmm0...wlang
Love everything you do here. Just passed my A2.1 for my Finnish citizenship application. Will continue to watch and study all your videos. You are an exceptional. Kiitos!!
Huge congratulations!!
I am coming to Finland next week and thank you for this video. I always thank you for your good video.
Ohh enjoy your time there! :)
Also this is like где, куда and откуда. Thanks for another great video!!
And thank you for watching =)
Also... Где = Where, Куда = Where to, Откуда = Where from...
The video is good! Many thanks to the author of the channel for the recommendations! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot's Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! Wishing you the best on your language journey! :)
You explain stuff for slow people😊 I'm not slow but I still appreciate that :)
Hahah just want to make sure everyone is on board and not rush through things xD
@@KatChatsFinnish Please keep doing that :)
I'm slow 😂 I actually watched a few others for variation but they went too fast so I just rewatch this haha
do ''kuka'' next. kuka, keta ,kenessa etc etc. i still cant figure it out !!!!love your videos btw, keep it up!!!
Great suggestion! I'll add that to my list :D And thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoy my videos ^-^
@@KatChatsFinnish made from the heart, with love for Finnish learner and love for Finnish itself, how could they be anything else than great videos as they are. Great job.
Your explanations are really good, thank you once again for making Finnish so easy and fun! 💙 Also makes it easier to pay attention when your teacher is söpö.. 🤗
Hahah aww kiitos :)
Lots of examples please. I love how you are super slow and clear and repetitive about the topic words, but its nice to hear them in lots of contexts at a natural pace. Each example differs by just one thing and mentions the topic word. Liked the "welcome to my channel intro" I wasn't trying to learn Finnish. I guess I am now.
Thanks for the feedback :D
It's cool to put your videos into real applications, I practice my adverbs and learn a lot of my vocab from listening to "Teräsbetoni" hahaha, Missä miehet ratsastaa siellä lampaat ei voi laiduntaa!!
What my mind goes to, Kiitos!
Hyvä päivää. Please keep updating i like how you teaching. Kiitos paljon sisko ❤
Kiitos paljon kommentistasi! :)
Hello Dear,
thank you for your help.
can you please make another video on the suffixes added at the end of names of places like tori,puisto... when answering the question words you mentioned on this video?
Kiitos could you make a video about all wh questions in finnish your explanation very clear 😗
I will try!
This video was very enlightening. Hey can you do a video on how to ask Ko questions?
Certainly can add it to the list ! Thanks for the rec!
I have a question. Which would you use in a situation like where can I do something, such as where can I sit down? Is that missä?
This is really helpful. Thanks so much, watching from Nigeria
Thank you :)
@katchatsfinnish, the same in Russian language:
Missä - where - где?
Mistä - from where - откуда?
Mihin - where to - куда?❤
I know its old but thank you for this video. Exstra thanks because I'm just learning English too and its not my first language but your pronounsion of words makes it easy to understand you and now I can learn finnish. Part with finnish extremely understandable too. Thank you
I really get confused about these cases in my Finnish lesson in class. Thank you so so much!!!
You are amazing....thank you so much, you have no idea how good and great skills you have with teaching .......
Aw thank you so much :)
thanks for making this video!!! i think i’m the one that requested it. also thanks to you, i’m much more fluent in finnish and my finnish friends don’t hate me as much.
Yay! You're welcome, I'm happy to help! Aw noo why would they hate youu :(
KatChats lol they just get really annoyed if i slightly mispronounce a word or if i conjugate a verb incorrectly. “noooo it’s not pidän juusto it’s pidän juustoSTAAAAAAAAAAA” “let me liiiiiiive!!!!!!!!” 😂
Goodness !! That's a bit annoying D:
Not confusing at all! It is actually very clear put out this way!
Hello! Yes it was really helpful, thank you so much ❤️. I just had an extra question. Can we actually use those but not in a question? If yes, which one would you use in this situation? Is it always the same as soon as it's not used as a question or it still depends on the context?
Situation: "Put the pen back WHERE you found it"
thank you
Very helpful video
Very good. Literally I was struggling with this missä, mihin and mistä. You are very good. God bless you. :-)
Glad I could help! Thank you :)
@@KatChatsFinnishyes Thank you.
You are very humble. Stay blessed.
Thank you very much for the lesson. Easy to learn the way you teach
Thank you so much!
My favorite question in Finnish is “miks ei?” Great motivator 😁
hahha xD
Yuuuup
Mutta miksi? 😀
Niin miksi ei miksi
Thanks Kat very nicely presented.
Thank you so much :)
Hei! :-) Beautiful and simple way to explain it! Kiitos!
I have a question about "jossa". I read this in some texts when talking about where is a specific location...
What does it stand for?
"Jossa" is an inflection for the word "joka" the same way as "missä" is for the word "mikä" when referring to a previous word or sentence. They are very similiar and even finns might have a hard time deciding which one to use. Both mean inside or at the thing you are referring to, usually a location.
"As a relative pronoun, joka only tends to refer to the previous word or phrase, as opposed to a whole sentence (like mikä). In colloquial usage, this distinction is usually not as clear-cut." -wiktionary.org
I've also learned to use "joka" when referring to a concrete thing, and "mikä" when referring to a more abstract thing. But in puhekieli you could use "mikä" (and its inflections) in almost any situation.
"Mikä" can also start a question like in this video (none of the examples in the video are really referring to a previous word or a sentence), "joka" really cant, it always refers to something. Only way I can come up with "joka" starting a sentence is when it means "every", like "joka päivä" = "every day", but that doesn't have those inflections, and can't be turned into "jossa", it's a different word.
Here's some more info and examples:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joka
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mik%C3%A4
As someone fairly new to learning the Finnish language, this is helpful to me, since I've been yearning to travel to Finland sometime in the future and hopefully converse effectively with the locals, and the other thing, which is translating all the songs in the Sayonara Wild Hearts soundtrack into Finnish.
That's great! :D
Thank you for this lesson🌸🌸🌸
I think I'm inlove after watching all these tutorials
Que agradable clase, se te comprende muy bien, no te preocupes. Gracias por tus videos.
sinä olet hyvä opettaja 🙏🌺
Kiitos! :)
mista question usually answer the place or using vehicles by adding sta at the end.
Thank you for taking the time to help others! :)
Very good differentiation of those words. Thank you.
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This is terrific!! English used to use the words whence for where from and whither for where to. German uses woher for where from and wohin for where to. Missä connotes a question about a stationary location whereas the other two inquire about movement from or to. Mihin olet menossa instead of mihin menet and mihin ollaan menossa? Could you give more examples of this construction. Also, could you do a video giving typical sentences using-
tässä - tästä - tähän
tuossa - tuosta - tuohon
siinä - siitä - siihen
täällä - täältä - tänne
tuolla - tuolta - tuonne
siellä - sieltä - sinne
or at least some of them. For example, bring it here/take it over there. I think you used siihen in your video about ordering coffee. Thanks.
Oh great additions, and wow what a list! I'll add them to my page of recommended topics :P
If you want another suggestion, go over when to use: pitää, pitaisi, täytyy, olla pakko and ei tarvitse. Kiiti.
Mihin olet menossa: already on the go - in the bus for example. Mihin menet? Just leaving - home for example.
kiitos kaunis opettaja
@KatChats Finnish do you have video of S-cases and places with answering the questions with different case endings. I am currently studying Finnish Language, you help me a lot.
Thanks for this!
In the example, 'Mistä tämä tuli?' What role does the word 'tuli' play? Google translate says it translates to fire/flame/light/blaze, so I'm surprised for it to be used in this phrase that doesn't seem to reference fire at all.
In that sentence "tuli" is the past tense form of "tulla" (= to become/to come) so it actually doesn't have anything to do with fire. It just happens to be spelled the same way xD Good question! :)
your explanations are really good and I can easily understand what you're trying to learn us. i love Finnish and thanks to you, it is a lot easier. Everyone always says that Finnish is super hard to learn but you make it easier and it's nice to have someone explain it where it's not just overloaded with grammatical terms and whatever
Aw that's so nice of you to say, thank you so much ^-^ I'm so glad you find my videos helpful, and good luck with your Finnish! :D
Can u also make a video on manataista perjantaisin arkisin ????❤
Hi! Can you please do a video about the difference between "miten and kuinka". thank you :)
I’m now learning Finnish by myself. Thank you ❤
Sending you extra motivation! You can do it 🙌🏻
Absolute beginner here ✋ Any tips?
This is truly fascinating! Being inspired by this channel, I am taking Finnish in DuoLingo now.
Question: can "on" be placed both in the middle and at the end of sentences?
For example, if I say "missä kaupunki tuo on?" May I also use "missä on tuo kaupunki?"
I think your second example is more natural. I think the first one sounds a little awkward to my ears, but I think to answer your question, if you just swap the middle words you could say: Missä tuo kaupunki on? and that would sound just as good as Missä on tuo kaupunki. (even tho "Missä tuo kaupunki on" sounds a tad more natural) So yes :)
@@KatChatsFinnish I appreciate the reply. Duolingo keeps putting "on" at the end of these types of sentences, but your videos often have "on" in the middle. Thanks a lot for the answer!
@@brazenserpent7 changing word order usually gives little bit different meaning but not so much that you could really explain it easily, usually some poets etc use weird word orders to get some artistic effects.
Good lesson. How to form verbs? Plural, etc.
I'll add it to my list! :D
kiitos!! I hope I get to learn Finnish asap.
Something's I'm used to from other languages (like French? Can't remember, I'm from the US and just getting back into my studies) that isn't found in Finnish is a consonant that would be at the end of Mistä" then "olet" which would make it flow better but since one change to Finnish can create an entirely new meaning I think it's also a good thing it lacks it. In English we have it with the article "a" becoming "an" before vocabulary starting with a vowel
Thankyou sooo much . Very clear to understand.
I am from somalia🇸🇴 you are good teacher
Kiitos paljon.Now I'm all clear with those three question words but it'd be better if you also explain me about the differences between Mikä and Mitä
Yes good idea!
Thank you, love your videos to the bits 🧡
Very clear, thank you, Kat! But one of your examples brought up another question. Would you typically use the word höyhen for a single feather? Because the word I've seen used is sulka. I actually thought that höyhen meant plumage. Which would be the word most commonly used?
Höyhen is more like a softer fluffier smaller feather and sulka would be like the bigger sturdier looking ones that come off ducks or eagles (like the outer layer) etc if that makes sense from my explanation xD
Love you and your interesting videos!😉
Keen to learn Finnish language because of my job application in Finland.. hopefully i can pass the A1 nd A2 exams.
Arvostin paljon!
Hyvää Syntymäpäivä did you pass the test, if your what helped the process?
I just understand to use this not long time ago 🤣 when was studied missä/mistä/mihin i was like WTF 🥺🥺 and i like to watch your channel because in class only book language so i know speaking language from your channel ♥️
Awww you're so sweet, I'm glad my channel can help you out a bit 😍
there are 3 direction question words in Russian too (Russian and Finnish have much in common):
missä = ГДЕ,
mihin = КУДА,
mistä = ОТКУДА
Omg🥰😍...you're so beautiful and a very good teacher
Kiitos :)
another problem at me that is how to use lla/llä or sta,stä at the end of the verbs in sentences to describe where to,from etc
and the problems of the rules hVn seen etc
Hopefully, you would like to make a video for this situation
kiitös paljon
I'll add it to my list ! :)
kiitos paljon,sina olet kaunis..
oh wow, I see this is an old video, it is very useful and interesting! you do that very emotionally and I like this :) and I like that thing on your hair. how many rings did you have there? :)
Hahah I don't know but a lot xD
Learning another language through several others is funny because I was so confused at the confusion through english but then I realized my native language has pretty much equivalents 🤣🤣 ‘kde, kam, odkud’.
Kaunis... thank you. Hope to see u eyes in person
I really like your videos. For this particular one, if i understood it correctly, is “MISSA” used for objects and “MISTA” is for places?
Well, missä can be for places too for example: "Missä Oulu on?" = Where is Oulu, and mistä can be for objects for example: "Mistä sä sait ton?" = Where did you get that. I think the main difference is that "mistä" = from where. So in that sense it refers to a place, like "from where did you get that/from where are you from etc" :D
Old English words can help: O E whither = where to, or Finnish mihin; O E whence = where from or Finnish mista
Here's a practical example on how using missä/mihin/mistä can change the meaning of a sentence.
Imagine you're traveling on a bus or something, a friend calls you and asks:
Mihin oot menossa? = Where are you going?
Missä oot menossa? = Where are you at?
"Whats is the location you're traveling to?" vs. "What is the location you're traveling at right now?" - if that makes any sense.
So with the second one your friend obviously knows where you are heading already and just wants to check how far are you at. With the first one he/she has forgot where you are traveling to altogether. :D
Missä oot menossa is not a finnish word if you translate it its where you at going
@@teehee2686 It is a common Finnish expression. It's indeed quite hard to translate to English, because no English person would say "Where you are going at?".
@@LevisL95 uumm sä voit puhuu kyllä suomea
@@teehee2686 Ok, hyvä. En oikein ymmärrä mitä tarkoitat kun sanot "Missä oot menossa is not a finnish word".
Juu sori et häiritsin kosk en oikein ymmärtäny koskmun englannin taidoyt ei oo niin hyviä
Are we ever getting a video on declining? I'm currently reading Finnish: An Essential Grammar and the chapter about declining has absolutely bodied me.
Wait what is declining?
The various case endings added to adjectives and nouns such as nominative, accusative, genitive. ablative, illative, essive like asemalla for in the station.
OHHH right, yeah that's a popular request but the one video I'm scared to make. I just feel like I'll mess it up xD I'm doing research into atm so hopefully when I feel like I fully understand it enough to be able to explain it well I'll give it a go :)
@@KatChatsFinnish Well, personally, I think the actual endings are the easiest part to understand about declining. Their meanings and uses are relatively straightforward sans the partitive.
The most daunting aspect of declining to me, is the stem changes. Stem changes in conjunction with consonant gradation can basically mutilate a word to be unrecognizable to my poor monolingual brain.
Not to mention there are like 10 different groups of stem endings, each with their own unique changes. Learning the rules to consonant gradation was hard enough ;_;
Thank you for highlighting this, it's actually really helpful to hear some of the more difficult aspects! I'll make a note of it :)
Thank you very much ,kiitos paljon
This is very helpful, thank you Kat~
I'm so glad!
Thanks for this video...helps a lot for someone like me that had no idea in finnish☺️☺️
You're welcome 😊
Thank you for your videos 🙌🏻
Aww, you're welcome :D
cracking up at 05:40 and 02:49 ..that helps me remember as it's so dramatic lol
can you please do a video about the tenses. they confuse me so much and you’re really good at explaining stuff. yee yee love your videos btw :)
Aww thank you, I'll add it to my list! :D And it makes me so happy when people enjoy how I make my videos!
Mihin and mistä forms of "where" cover the need for a preposition, since there are no prepositions in Finnish, right?
Hei, I recently started learning Finnish and Hungarian is my mother tongue, but I'm learning Finnish in English.
It's strange that these question words are also present in the Hungarian language (Hol? Hová? Honnan?), but I have to deal with the English translation.
Moi :)
When you ask missa , mihin ,mista easy :) but reply is so difficult .
for missa : (-ssa , -ssä )
kauppa - kauppassa (inside) , outside (outside , biside , near , on ) - lla , -llä
tori- torilla metsa (forest ) metsassa , kioski - kioskilla (
for mihin : (inside ) koulu -- kouluun , kirjasto karjastoon (outside ) tori- torille asema - asemelle ( - lle)
for mista: (inside) add -sta - stä , (outside ) -lta , ltä
so mixed for me :)
Could you share video with us for this matter ?
sorry for my bad english :)
One feature of these question words is that the same case ending will be (usually) included in your answer to the question.
"Mihin menet?" "Vessaan."
"Mistä tulet?" "Vessasta."
"Missä olet, huhuu?" "Vessassa."
(Ja huomaanpa samalla että 'vessassa' on aika hauskan näköinen ja kuuloinen sana.)
Hahaha xD Good pointer! (ja joo kun ton näkee kirjoitettuna se näyttää aika hauskalta!)
Tämä video on mukava.
Love your teaching
Thank you!
Kiitos paljon !
Thank a ton!
Thank you so much :)
Kiitos ☺ ☺
I just decided to learn finnish with you. So much fun. What do you think about the relationship between the finnish and the hungarian language? I met a finnish stewardess in Beijing about three weeks ago and she told me the number four is so similar. Nëlja and négy. Is that everything? Or is there some more easter eggs? Thanks for the videos. ;)
The finnish numbers are yksi=1 kaksi=2 kolme=3 neljä=4 viisi=5 and so on
Hungarian / Finnish do not have many same or even similar words although the spoken language sounds similar.
Kiitos
Do Finns see these as entirely distinct words or as variations of eachother?
Can anyone explain to me the difference between "minne" and "mihin"? As I learned, "minne" also means to where, when you ask someone going to or something is going to the location. For instance Minne sinä menet? - Where are you going? I get a little confused about these 😟 Kiitos paljon!!!
For 'Where to' you can also use the word 'minne.' Minne menet?=Mihin menet?=Where are you going? I tried to come up with an example where these 2 words can't be used interchangeably and I couldn't think of anything.
Probably more abstract ideas eg. Mihin uskot? = What do you believe -> you couldn't substitute it with minne since you're not actually going anywhere :P But good point! They are in most cases interchangeable !
I lol at your funny examples. Also I’m astonished that you seem to speak both languages with little accent of the other. (Although I’m a poor judge of accent in spoken Finnish - I grew up hearing Yooper dialect and accent a lot and that, I have heard, can be pretty atrocious).
I have a question regarding S vs L, if i am saying i go to the park ( menen puistoon vai puistolle?) Which one do i use? Are there outdoor places considered indoor (i only know of one which is metsä, so answer form would be in S, metsään, metsässä, metsästä) i am assuming?
Was there any advice on the S and L answering given on this ? Having a hard time understanding when to use them !
moi! how to answer missä, mistä ja mihin question?
thanks this helped a lot!
I’m glad :)
Sinä olet kaunista ♥️
Kiitos!
You say kaunista for a object or painting like tuo on kaunista and its translated that is beautiful
You will write it as sinä olet kaunis
Very good video. Dont worry it was very clear :)))
Glad you liked it! :)
kiitos paljon 😀
Kiitos! :)