monikko tips??

[Phil]

We've been doing monikko (plural) in my Finnish 3 class. It's not really that hard, but there are a lot of a little rules. Does anyone have any good tips or "cheat sheets" that can help??

[Frypan]

If rote memorisation rings your bell, I made a list of 100 words with the basic, kaikki, monta and paljon forms here...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Finnish/files/
then select
MonikkoPartitiivi.xls

A good exercise might be to put that list into the different groups based how the words are conjugated... and then share that for the next person or put it in Finnish School... That list is public domain.

Maybe if you look at them in a list, you can start to see patterns, and ... I don't know. It took me a long time and a combination of memorisation and the mathematical approach.

--fry

[kalmisto]

Conjugate Finnish nominals on-line at :

http://213.28.175.242:8080/SparroWWeb/guessword.jsp

[kalmisto]

We've been doing monikko (plural) in my Finnish 3 class. It's not really that hard, but there are a lot of a little rules. Does anyone have any good tips or "cheat sheets" that can help??

Have you noticed that some Finnish words only have the plural form:

hautajaiset = a funeral, ( the ) funerals

nämä hautajaiset = this funeral = these funerals

häät = a wedding, weddings

naamiaiset = a masquerade, masquerades

sakset = scissors

Can anybody remember more of these?

[Hank W.]

Any kind of party is almost always a plural
juhlat, ristiäiset...
except joulu & juhannus & pääsiäinen

[PeterF]

[Have you noticed that some Finnish words only have the plural form:


Can anybody remember more of these?

But dont forget that the partative rules still apply to these words..
e.g. The negative forces the partative..
pikkuhousut = panties
but it is... Ilman Pikkuhousuja...

[Hank W.]

Why be so verbal when you can say it with one word... pikkuhousuitta