A Finnish GrammarClarendon Press, 1890 - 279 pages |
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3rd infin 3rd pers 3rd person 3rd sing abessive Accusative sing action adessive adjectives adverbs Affirmative affix älä älköön becomes Cheremissian compound concessive conjugation consonants declension denote dialects diphthong eivät emme English essive Esthonian ette final vowel Finnish Finnish language Finno-Ugric languages formed by adding genitive genitive plur Genitive sing Hän hänen häntä Illative sing imperf imperfect inessive infinitive Instr Jumala kaksi Kalevala kirja kuka languages liene lienee long vowel lukeneet lukenut Manala meaning mennä minun mitä Mordvinian negative verb nominative plur Nominative sing noun nousnut object olen olisi oltu optative Ostiak ovat participle passive pitää Plur plural Poika postposition Preposition pres present pron pronominal suffix pronouns repineet repinyt roots ending rule saada saaneet saanut saava sentence stem substantive suffix syllable Syrjenian tämä tense termination tive translative tule tuli tulla tullut tuon tuoneet Tuonela Tuoni tuonut Väinämöinen vanha virkki word
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Page 179 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 173 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed...
Page 129 - To understand Finnish syntax it is of the greatest importance to remember that there is no real distinction between nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, infinitives, and participles. In fact, all the words of a sentence, except the forms of a finite verb (and a few particles which have become petrified) are nouns, and as such are susceptible of declension, so that the significance of the cases has an importance extending over almost the entire grammar.
Page 1 - ... disproportionately, whereas, in planning for the utilization of sludge, the method of sewage treatment should be considered from the very commencement. Utilization as Distinct from Disposal A consideration of the methods in operation, or which have been suggested for overcoming the sludge difficulty, shows that they may be divided into two classes : ( 1 ) Those in which the sludge is assumed to be worthless, in fact, a nuisance which can only be got rid of at a cost; (2) Those methods based on...
Page v - MY object in writing this book has been to give an account of Finnish sufficient to enable any one to understand the grammatical structure of the written language, and also to place before the student of philology an account of the chief phenomena it presents.
Page 187 - Lemminkäinen leikkilöihin. Viel' on muitaki sanoja, ongelmoita oppimia: tieohesta tempomia, kanervoista katkomia, risukoista riipomia, vesoista vetelemia, päästä heinän hieromia, raitiolta ratkomia, paimenessa käyessäni, lasna karjanlaitumiÙa, metisillä mättähillä, kultaisilla kunnahilla, mustan Muurikin jälessä, Kimmoh kirjavan keralla.
Page xxxiii - ... show considerable diversity. The adjective is fully declined, agrees with its substantive, and takes degrees of comparison. The verb is clearly distinguished from the noun, and the scanty supply of primitive tenses has been supplemented by a number of forms combined with the auxiliary verb after the analogy of German or Swe^dish.
Page xxxvii - Volga-Baltic, the former including only the Syrjenians, Permians, and Votiaks, the latter again in two sub-divisions, the Volga group or Mordvinian and Cheremissian, and the West Finnish group including Lappish, Esthonian, and Finnish. This classification may be represented thus in a table : — „• ,
Page xxxii - Scandinavian words, often the equivalents of the simplest ideas, which have been borrowed, not lately, but before the earliest period of which we have any record. In the structure of the language itself this approximation is not less striking. It manifests itself in two ways — negatively and positively. As...
Page xxxviii - The present of the positive conjugation has p (or v) regularly or sporadically in certain persons, and the remaining verbal forms, though far from agreeing absolutely, show a sufficient resemblance to warrant us in regarding them as the results of a common development.