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Evita’s TAC 2008 - Finnish

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Serpent
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 Message 17 of 51
23 May 2008 at 7:34pm | IP Logged 
Yeah, I remember how hard this lesson was for me...

By the way, as far as I understand the ого/его ending in Russian adjectives is somehow related to the pronoun его, maybe it makes this concept a bit less odd;) at least for me it did. pity I was told about this when I already had this lesson down :/

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 Message 18 of 51
27 May 2008 at 9:01pm | IP Logged 
I'm answering here so that the Finnish thread doesn´t turn into "questions about Finnish" thread :-)

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One question though - my book said that 'ni' and 'nsa' and the other suffixes are added to the Genitive root of the word, that's why I wrote 'kukani' and 'nukensa'. Is my book wrong again? Or is it a partly Genitive root - vowels changed and consonants unchanged?

Sort of, yes. Actually the 'genitive' stem can be both strong and weak - e.g. poikansa/pojan. When there's a possessive suffix attached (only in the singular genitive and plural nominative), the stem is strong, otherwise it depends on the case, but mostly weak. Is it clearer this way?
By the way, that was exactly one of the points I liked about your edition :D In mine it's not clearly stated that the suffixes are added to the genitive stem, but there are examples that make it clear the consonants are strong in such case...

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