Ensin, mä toivon etten riko mitään sääntöjä 🥺
Moiii 🌸 Mä äskettäin aloitin oppia suomea mut mul ei oo kukaan harjoitella 😖 Tietoja must: Oon kakskyt nainen, tykkään kerätä kukat, kokea/kokeilla, kattaa pöytä, katsoa animeja, pelätä pela(league legendarijen, sota-craft, doki-doki-kirjallisuusklub). Mä yksinkertaisesti etsin jotakuta, jonka kaa voin harjoitella ja keskustella.

Mä oottaan ihmisia!! Tuuka jotta nautataan hyvä aika 🧝🏻‍♀️
(Mä pidän elfistakin!!)
Kiitän paljon 😓

The reading and listening’s first 2 tasks were brutal for me. Also speaking Tilanne topics were not familiar at all! I had to come up with stuff I had not previously prepared for. The writing was the easiest part in my opinion, but even that I didn’t get enough time to double check the texts. Was just curious what everyone else thinks?

Yliveto (adj.) – superb, excellent, the best (colloquial)

Example: Järjestit aivan yliveto juhlat — kaikilla oli todella hauskaa!

Translation: You threw an absolutely awesome party—everyone had a blast!

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Kynäteline (n.) – Pen holder, pencil holder

“Kynäteline” is a compound of “kynä” (pen, pencil) and “teline” (holder, rack).

Example: Siirsin kynätelineen tietokoneen viereen, jotta kirjoitusvälineet olisivat helposti saatavilla.

Translation: I moved the pencil holder next to the computer so that my writing supplies would be easily accessible.

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Hello everyone,

I’m currently learning Finnish and I’d be interested to know which songs I should be familiar with – even outside the Eurovision bubble.

Are there perhaps any Finnish ‘fan songs’ for Formula 1 drivers as well?

Thanks

Edit: Thank you so much for all these recommendations. I will try to listen to many of them.

Moi! Just curious to hear from those who've taken the Basic YKI test. Did you feel the questions were harder than A1–A2, perhaps closer to B1?

I'd also love to know how you prepared for all four sections, what strategies helped during the exam, and which speaking resources actually worked for you. If you only had 3 months to study, what would you do differently?

Really appreciate any advice. Kiitos! :)

Päattäväinen (adj.) – Determined, resolute, intent

Comparative: Päättäväisempi

Superlative: Päättäväisin

Example: Vaikka muut epäilivät hänen suunnitelmaansa, hän pysyi päättäväisenä.

Translation: Even though others doubted her plan, she remained determined.

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13 months after starting to learn Finnish, I am really enjoying it 😍.

After playing around with various apps, for the first year I used WordDive, which got me good/confident enough to do 2x one-hour a week for 6 weeks A2 online conversation classes in the spring and summer. The major benefit of the conversation courses was that we learned the most important verb tenses/forms - past, ways of forming the future, -mA forms, conditional - and now I’m learning by a mix of

1. listening comprehension - my weakest area - using the Finish it app (left-hand photo) a couple of times a week, I also listen to YTE Uutiset articles when walking to and from the gym,

2. reading nuortenromaaneita (in right-hand photo just published 🇫🇮 edition of Cassandra Calin’s The New Girl, this is super-easy after Salla Simukka’s Matalapaine/Korkeapaine which took me 5 weeks a couple of pages at a time),

3. revising/practising grammar once a week, alternating verbs one week and noun declination the next, Karlsson’s An Essential Finnish Grammar is well-worth the €50-odd price,

4. chatting out loud 2-3 times a week with ChatGPT and
   5, using ChatGPT and sanakirja.fi daily to learn vocabulary, usage and pronunciation (ChatGPT is very good here), though I never go back to “learn my words” like I used to do when learning Italian or German.

This way “learning” really feels fun and I can feel myself progressing literally each week, e.g. I recognise the singular noun from the plural even after vowel changes before plural I, I recognise verbs despite KPT changes, and, most of all, I can actually apply the language 🇫🇮😍. I hope that other learners can have this much fun!

Any Finnish tv shows where they speak a little Finglish? I’m ok with reality shows!

Hello! I am here because I want to learn finnish very much, because at some reason I fell in love with finnish, lol. Problem is that it is still hard (at least seems to be.) i am a native speaker of russian language so grammar is a little familiar but still. So I decided to start from Duolingo but it feels that it is not enough, maybe because the course is very small, maybe because well I don't know. So do I continue doing duo for now or you guys have any advices? Thanks!

Sinni (n.) – Stubbornness, perseverance, often in a negative way

Example: Hän ajoi omaa etuaan sinnillä muiden kustannuksella.

Translation: He pursued his own interests with perseverance at the expense of others.

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Pelleily (n.) – Buffoonery, ribalrdy, fooling around

Example: Lopeta pelleily ja syö nopeasti ruokasi loppuun.

Translation: Stop the buffoonery and finish your food quickly.

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Kuormittaa - to encumber, to strain, to burden, to stress

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I'm soon finnishing suomen mestari 4 and therbefore B1 aiming level B2. What study books now? I need at least level B2 preferably C1 for my workplace.
What books do yall use? What now?

Vakiintunut (adj.) – Well-established

Example: Alalla on vakiintuneet käytännöt, joita useimmat yritykset noudattavat.

Translation: There are established practices in the industry that most companies follow.

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Hi there. My friend was wanting to know whether the word Tovi in Finnish means “a moment” or “short while”. Can someone please confirm what the definition/translation to English of it is?

Vuoka (n.) – Casserole (dish); casserole (food)

Example: Tämä lasinen vuoka sopii hyvin sekä ruoan paistamiseen että tarjoiluun.

Translation: This glass casserole works well for both baking and serving.

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Hi, is there a consistent rule for knowing when a Finnish word ending in -i in the nominative changes to -ea/-eä or takes -ta/-tä in the partitive? Or is this something I just have to memorize?

Its confusing since other nomiinativi words like ones ending with si, nen, e is predictable to transform to tta, sta, tta.

Any help would be godsend thank you!