Nyt, Tarkastellaan! (Suomi on Kaunis Maa)

Suomi- n. Finland

Kaunis- adj. Beautiful
Mää- n. Country

Tässä on Suomen kartta. - This is Finland's Map. Here you see that instead of suomi, it became suomen, it is in it's genitive form. The genitive form is used for possession, just like in english, 's.

ihminen/henkilö- person, the plural is ihmiset-person.

The basic form in the plural is called the nominative plural. The plural nominative ending is -t. The ending -t is added to the stem of the word. In other words, if there are any consonants that are subject to the consonant gradation, they change, also vowel changes apply to this ending.
Example: Kolikko a coin ------ Kolikot-- the coins
sekki- a cheque-------sekit--- the cheques.
Notice the change in the words that end in -nen, -nen changes to -set.
example: Nainen a woman------ Naiset women

We'll talk about consonant gradation later.

Sano- Say.. In the sentence, it is used as sanovat, because the personal ending -vat is added

Finnish English
minä Olen I
sinä Olet you Singular, informal
hän on he / she Finnish has no grammatical gender, so both "he" and "she" are "hän".
se on it Se is used for things and animals, but in coloquial Finnish also for people.
me olemme we
te olette you Plural (when talking to two friends), or formal (when talking to the president)
he ovat they
ne ovat they Ne refers to things. In colloquial Finnish you can refer to people as "ne"

personal endings for each pronouns
Minä ---- you add -n to the stem of the word, example, I say---Sanon.
Sinä----- you add -t to the stem of the word, example, You say--Sanot
Han------ -there is no personal ending for the third person singular, just double the last vowel of the word... He says---- Hän sanoo.
Me----- -mme, We say---- Sanomme
Te----- -tte, you say (plural/formal) --- Te sanotte
He----- -vat ----- They say---- He sanovat

Usein- Adv. - frequently/ often
että- that
neito- maiden
koska- because
samanlainen/ sama- same/similar
kuin- like
nainen- woman
jolla- it is a relative pronoun which means who/that
käsi- Hand
ylhäällä- at the top ylos- up, ylla- above
Lappi- Lapland
käsivarsi- arm
suomalaisuuden- finnish
symboli- symbol
jonka- relative pronoun which means that - ex. Kirja, jonka olen ostanut, on tylsä. The book that I have bought, is boring.
kaikki- all
suomalaiset- Finnish people/finns To say you are a citizen of a certain country, you add -lainen/-läinen behind the country's name. Example- Arabia- arabialainen
tietää- to know, tietävat- they know, tiedamme- we know jne.
jne- is the finnish of etc. meaning, ja niin edeleen- and so on....
Siellä- There
puhdas- pure/ clean
ilma- air/wind/weather, but in the sentence, it is used as air.
paljon- many/much
metsää- forest
yli- over
järvi- lake, järvea is the partitive form , well talk about partitive form later
luonto- nature
rikas- rich
myös- also/too
lampi- pond
joki- river
koski- rapids/race
suurin- Majority/greatly/most
jossa- relative pronoun which means "which" Luin lehden, jossa oli uutinen presidentistä. I read the newspaper, in which there was news about the president.
elää- live/exist
norppa- ringed seal, an animal which only lives in finland

eläin- animal
joka - relative pronoun which means which
vain - only
pinta- surface, alasta- area
vesi- water
noin- approximately/about
ympäri- around, round, ympäröi- surrounded
meri- sea
ruotsia- sweden
välissä- between
Pohja- Bothnia, It is situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast.
lahti- bay/gulf