Finnish

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This book is an introductory beginners course in the Finnish Language.

Being developed alongside this book are a Grammar Reference Book and a Guide to Modern Finnish which readers may find useful.

For very practical reasons, these other books cannot be merged with this basic introductory course book (see Discussion Page for further information).

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Greetings 3 Some phrases 4 Dialogues 5 Answers to exercises 6 About the book

[edit] Introduction

1. Introduction
2. Alphabet

[edit] Greetings

• Basic greetings
• Names and nationalities
• Grammar-Vowel harmony
• Grammar-Suffixes
• Grammar-Cases
• Grammar-Verbs
• Grammar-Conditional

[edit] Some phrases

• Time

[edit] Dialogues

• Dialogues with audio read by native speakers
• Dialogue 1: kohtaaminen metroasemalla / encounter on a metro station

[edit] Answers to exercises

1. Answers to exercises

[edit] About the book

1. Cover page
2. Appendix A: Common phrases