FINNISH GRAMMAR BT CLEMENS NIEMI, A. M. THIRD EDITION PRICE 2.50
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INTERSTATE PCRINTINO COMPANY 194S PREFACE In preparing this book my
aim has not been to write a complete Finnish grammar. I have sought
to present only the fundamental principles in the briefest possible
way necessary for the study of the Finnish language. The student
should thoroughly master the sound values of each letter before
taking any advanced steps. In doing so he is able to acquire
accuracy in pronunci ation. It should be remembered that Finnish,
as its cognate Finno-Ugric languages, is an agglutinative
language., that is to say, the words are formed of roots by adding
certain suffices or endings to the stem. In this process of
appending, the changes of letters for euphony or harmony occur. The
rules for these changes should be carefully observed in connection
with each lesson as they come. Each lesson consists of a statement
of grammatical principles, a vocabulary, exercises, and in some
cases, a brief reading lesson. The vocabulary at the head of the
lesson will help the student to understand the sen tences which
follow. The exercises have been devel oped in such a way that each
lesson brings out the grammatical principles at hand. The rules of
syntax as well as grammatical questions have been scattered
throughout a long series of lessons for the purpose of leading the
student gradually to a thorough understand ing of the rules. The
case-endings and the use of the cases are particularly emphasized,
as they form a very difficult and essential part in the study of
the Finnish language. The reading lessons are so arranged as to
give an earlyacquaintance with real Finnish, and they continually
add new - words to the students vocabulary. Fully aware of many
defects, I hope that this book, the only Finnish grammar of its
kind in English, will be of some aid to the learner of the Finnish
language. CLEMENS NIEML CONTENTS Lesson Pag-e Introduction 7 14 I
Nominative Case 15 16 II Accusative and Genitive Cases 17 19 HI The
Verb 19 22 IV Essive and Partitive Cases 23 25 V Reading-Lesson 26
27 VI Potential nad Conditional Moods 27 30 VH TransJiative and
Inessive Cases 30 32 VH3I Imperative Active, Infinitives, anld
Participles 32 35 DC Elative and Illative Cases 36 38 X The
Auxiliary erb Olla, to be 38 41 XOO Adessive and Ablative Cases 42
44 xXM Allative and Abe ssive Cases 44 47 XQDH Oomitative and
Instructive Cases 47 51 XIV Reading-Lesson 51 53 XV Method of
Expressing-the Auxiliary to have 53 56 XVI legation 56 59 XVEI
Personal and Possessive Pronouns 5 613 XVIH Compound Tenses 63 6.6
XIX Reading. Lesson 67 69 XX Passive Voice 69 73 XXI Method of
Expressing-Future Time 74 77 XXH Comparison of Adjectives 78 81
XXDQn Interrogation 8184 XXOV Demonstrative and Relative Pronouns
84 87 XXV Reflexive and Indefinite Pronouns 87 91 XXVI Cardinal
Numbers-91 95 XXVII Ordinal Numbers 95 99 XXVIII Compound Noun 99
102 XXIX Attribute, Appositive, and Adverb 102 105 XXX Prepositions
and Postpositions 105 109 XXXI Conjunctions and Interjections 10 9
112 Derivation o f Stufostantives a-n d Adjec tives 113 115 Rules
of Syntax 115 139 Tables of Declension 139 155 Tables of
Conjugation 155 173 Formation of Verb Stems 173 174 Alphabetical
Last of Verbs 174178 Finnish-English Vocabulary 179 191
English-Finnish. Voca-bulary 192 205 Index 206207INTRODUCTION 1...
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