Please, help me in Finnish!
I'd like to know more about using umlauts, ending a word.
For example, suuri-suuressA and pieni-pienessÄ.
Why are umlauts used in some words' forms and not?
(I've heard some rule: when a word contains some letters, its form end on umlaut....)
I need your help. Thank you! ;)
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Объясните, пожалуйста, почему при изменении падежей в некоторых словах появляются умляуты в конце, а в некоторых - нет? ( SuomessA, HelsingissÄ) Заранее благодарна!
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Answers · 3
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In Finnish language a word (some exceptions with borrowed words can occure) can only contain front vowels [e] ja [i] that are considered to be neutral and either back vowels [ɑ], [o], [u] or front vowels [y], [æ]( > ä), [ø]( > ö).
That is why in the word SUURI, where there are the back vowel U, the vowel added to the end also has to be a back vowel, in this case A -suuressA
and in the word PIENI, where there are front vowels, the vowels added to the end also have to be front vowels, in this case Ä -pienessÄ.
kissa - kissaSSA
koira - koiraSSA
auto - autoSSA
tuoli - tuoliSSA
ämpäri - ämpäriSSÄ
tynnyri - tynnyriSSÄ
työ - työSSÄ
päivä - päiväSSÄ
yö - yöSSÄ
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that's right its called vokaalisointu...
and remember if there are only i and e the front vowels are used...
when e and i are mixed with other vocals , these vocals decides what kind of postfixes are used.
if it is a compound noun , the last one is the one which is the deciding:
työvuoroSSA - koulupäiväLLÄ
huom!
meri -mertA mutta regular merellä
veri -vertA mutta regular veressä
and foreign words dont follow the vocalharmony eg olYmpialaiset
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