Busan wrote:Hi, I would appreciate if someone could tell me if these are correct.
Google Translate doesn't seem to be too accurate.
I am drinking coffee = Minä olen juon kahvia
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The English tense you are using is the present continuous.... It is a form that is not typically used in other languages. In other languages, including Finnish, the form would be simply, "I drink....".... Other Germanic languages don't, in a formal way, use the present continuous tense. Though interestingly Celtic languages do.... This is one of the problems of thinking in terms of word for word translations.... You have to gradually learn to try to think in terms of how the other language does things, not assume that it will follow an English language type of pattern. Early on while learning Finnish I read that Finnish does not have the verb "to have"...which is a totally useless way to look at it.... Finnish has a different grammatical construction which gets that idea across.
Current linguistic scholarship is now leaning towards the view that Celtic languages...Welsh and Gaelic...particularly Welsh...have had a much greater influence on English that had previously been thought. Which probably should not come as a surprise, particularly since Welsh...Old Welsh...was the language spoken throughout Britain from the Channel to southern Scotland, between the end of the Roman occupation and the influx of the Anglo-Saxons, a period of some three hundred years... [The name, Edinburgh, a kind of Germanic-Celtic fusion, comes ultimately from an Old Welsh origin...
Din Eidyn.] And the 'historical revisionists"...

....are now of the view that most of the modern genetic material in the British Isles is Celtic...or maybe more accurately... Norse-Celtic... not so much Anglo-Saxon as was previously thought.....
[Aside; My current language learning interests have drifted to Welsh...and Gaelic languages, in general....and Welsh, although no way comparable to Finnish, has some features that remind me of Finnish....there is a lot of shape-shifting in Welsh words...really quite baffling at first glance.....a much more complicated system than Finnish consonant gradation ... For example, these are some of the forms of
Cymru, the Welsh word for Wales:
Cymru/Nghymru/Chymru; and the word for "dog"...
ci/gi/nghi/chi...and this is just as start...then there are plural forms..... And that quintessential Welsh symbol...made famous by the Queen... the '"corgi" ....the "gi" part relates to
ci the Welsh word for "dog" and the "cor" means...well, what else, "dwarf"....
Also like Finnish every letter is pronounced...except you have to know that sometimes two letters together is actually the orthographic convention for a particular sound.... The Welsh double "l".."ll" is a single, unique sound..."dd" and "ff" also fall into that category....and on it goes....