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#2Finnish by Gwaur
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Maailma jakautuu kolmeen alueeseen.
Yks alue ulottuu etelästä länteen Välimeren yli.
Sen nimi on Afrikka.
Eteläinen osa on kuuma ja siten siellä on auringon aiheuttamia tulipaloja.
Toinen alue lännestä pohjoseen ja merelle on nimeltään Eurooppa tai Enea.
Pohjoses osas on kylmä, kasvit ei kasva eikä siellä voi elää.
Alue pohjosesta kaakkoon on nimeltään Aasia.
Siinä maailman osassa on kaikki kauneus ja kaikki rikkaus, kulta ja jalokivet.

The world splits into three regions.
One region stretches from the south to the west over the Mediterranean Sea.
Its name is Africa.
The southern part is hot and so there are fires caused by the Sun.
The second region from the west to the north and to the sea is named Europe or Enea.
It's cold in the northern part, plants don't grow and one can't live there.
The region from the north to south-east is called Asia.
In that part of the world there is all the beauty and all the richness, gold and jewels.

world split.INTR-3S.ACT.IND.PRS three-SG.ILL area-SG.ILL
one area stretch.INTR-3S.ACT.IND.PRS south-SG.ELA west-SG.ILL mediterranean_sea-SG.GEN over
it-GEN name be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS Africa
south-ADJ part be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS hot and thence there be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS sun-SG.GEN cause-ADJ-PL.PART fire-PL.PART
second area west-SG.ELA north-SG.ILL and sea-SG.ALL be-3SG.ACT.IND.PRS name-SG.ABL-PX3S Europe or.IND Enea
north-SG.INE be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS cold, plant-PL.NOM NEG-3S.PRS grow.INTR-ACT.CONNEG NEG-3S.PRS=also there can-ACT.CONNEG live.INF
area north-SG.ELA southwest-SG.ILL be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS name-SG.ABL-PX3S Asia
it-SG.INE world-SG.GEN part-SG.INE be-3S.ACT.IND.PRS all beautiful-NMZ and all rich-NMZ, gold and jewel-PL.NOM

  • aiheuttaa - v. to cause
  • alue - n. area, region
  • aurinko - n. the Sun
  • ei - v. doesn't/don't
  • elää - v. to live
  • etelä - n. south
  • -inen - suff. adjectiviser or nouns
  • ja - conj. and
  • jakautua - v. to split (intr.)
  • jalokivi - n. jewel
  • kaakko - n. south-east
  • kaikki - prn. all
  • kasvaa - v. to grow (intr.)
  • kasvi - n. plant
  • kaunis - adj. beautiful
  • kolme - num. three
  • kulta - n. gold
  • kuuma - adj. hot
  • kylmä - adj. cold
  • -ka/-kä - cl. (n)either
  • länsi - n. west
  • -ma/-mä - adjectivizer of verbs; caused by the thing in genitive
  • maailma - n. the world
  • meri - n. sea
  • nimi - n. name
  • olla - v. to be
  • osa - n. part
  • pohjonen - n. north/adj. northern
  • se - prn. it
  • siellä - adv. there
  • siten - adv. thence
  • rikas - adj. rich
  • tai - conj. or
  • toinen - num. second, other
  • tulipalo - n. fire (disaster)
  • ulottua - v. to reach, stretch
  • -us - suff. nominalizer of adj.
  • yks - num. one
  • voida - v. can, to be able to
  • väli - n. gap, space between
  • yli - adv. over

Suffixes and forms marked as ? are irrelevant as they don't appear in the text.

Noun grammar

Cases

singularplural
nominative--t
partitive?-ia/-iä/-ja/-jä
genitive-n?
inessive-s(sa)/-s(sä)?
elative-sta/-stä?
illative-((s)e)en*?
ablative-lta/-ltä?
allative-lle?

* Or elongation of vowel + -n

Notes on inflection:

  • Words ending in -nen have that ending become -se-
  • The pronoun "se" has slightly different internal locatives:
    • siinä (inessive), siitä (elative), siihen (illative)

Possessive suffixes

singularplural
1st??
2nd??
3rd-nsa/-nsä-/:n?

The third person singular possessive suffix is an elongation of vowel and -n only when the word is conjugated in a case.

Verb grammar

This text had four kinds of verbs: -aa/-ää, -ua/-yä, -da/-dä and the copula.

-aa/-ää verbs conjugate thusly in present tense:

singularplural
1st??
2nd??
3rd-aa/-ää?

-ua/-yä verbs conjugate thusly in present tense:

singularplural
1st??
2nd??
3rd-uu/-yy?

-da/-dä verbs conjugate thusly in present tense:

singularplural
1st??
2nd??
3rd-?

The copula has its own onflections:

singularplural
1st??
2nd??
3rdonplural