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Woah! Mad respect! Certainly not perfect Finnish, but... least I can say it is good.

So let's fix the Finnish part: can't put my finger on reason why, but I 'd switch myös and aloin. T'ässä hetkessä -> tällä hetkellä. First one feels like too exact (at this exact moment), tällä hetkellä is more ...

Hi,

I'm the Egyptian who was learning Finnish here on the Sinuhe thread in 2013. I've since learned so much more and I've also started learning Swedish. I subtitle Moomin episodes in Finnish/English and also Swedish/English. Now there are 6 FI/EN and 1 SV/EN episodes on my youtube channel and I ...

I'm wondering about verbs that have more than one meaning with different stems, but with the same dictionary infinitive. The one I know is tavata > tapaa- (meet) & tavaa- (spell). Is there more like this?

I still have hope that there will always be people who take it as their duty to respect and protect language.

Maybe even it's the same at all times and nothing is new, reading and writing are not for everybody and the majority of people don't give a damn about them. I know for sure, that when I was ...

I've read a lil from a modern book, Kuutamolla, and there are so many English loan words! Even some words that I, the Finnish language toddler with less than a year experience with the language, could think a Finnish equivalent to, but the author chose the English loans. Modern Arabic has so many ...

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have an option to get books via "legal" means, as libraries are not a thing here and the rare bookshop sells books at "tourist" prices (books is not for locals, only tourists and rich people to show off as decor ;D this applies to decent books, but we have fried ...

Onneksi olkoon!

"Read Sinuhe and you'll learn the language", the AldenG method of language learning clearly worked.

Paljon kiitoksia! It isn't only AldenG's method, I said that's how I learned English too. I didn't know what genitive means, what diphthongs are, and all those words like ...

I finished it.
Somewhere near the end, I didn't need to translate to English or Arabic in my brain anymore. Everything just started to carry its own meaning, the way English does. It's a very satisfying feeling.

Silti sappeni kiehuu kertoakseni sinulle erään pienen salaisuuden, mutta koska salaisuus ei ole minun, en voi sitä kertoa eikä se kenties tehoisi sinuun, kun olet hulluutesi vallassa

What is tehoisi?

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7th line from top at that paragraph, what is tekotakaraivo? I also saw irtotakaraivo from book 10 but didn't give it a care. takaraivo is the place between päälaki and niska from Nykysuomen Sanakirja but I can't find what prefixing things to it does. Maybe it's a ...

täydentää = to supplement, replenish, complement, augment, fill in, flesh out, restock
täyttää = to fill up/in/out, refill

The former is more about filling in the missing pieces to some existing structure, complementing something, or restocking supplies if they’re running low.

The latter is ...

So what is your methodology, and how are you choosing these quite sparse excerpts to ask us about?

In particular, how are you parsing these forms so quickly and where is your vocabulary coming from?

I just read. That's how I learned English, at my early teens I had English books (whatever I ...

Got it, thanks. Part 1 finished in a month (since my first post to this thread)! Delicious book.

Can someone comment on this?


What is teräväpiirteisyys, rohkeapiirteisyys, kaunispiirteisyys, hämäräpiirteisyys (< from Nykysuomen Sanakirja at "piirteinen".) Is that a pompous way to say sharpness ...

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I'm confused with the 3rd from last line starting with "Et...".

What is "ollen voine"? I kinda feel that it means "being able to", but I can't understand it. Ollen is instructive of olla and voine is negative potential of voida. So maybe "being probably unable ...

Hän makasi henkitoreissaan eikä voinut enää puhua eikä liikuttaa käisään.

What is henkitoreissa? I found henkitorvi.
google translate thinks that it's a proper word, that if I type it any other way it says "Tarkoititko: henkitoreissa", and gives "bottomed" as the translation.