Infinitives ending in -et/a, -et/ä like lämmet/ä ‘get warm’ also form their
inflectional stem in a different way (cf. §23.2).
Infinitive First person sing. Third person sing.
+lämmet/ä get warm lämpene/n I get warm lämpene/e he gets
warm
vanhet/a grow old vanhene/n vanhene/e
+paet/a flee pakene/n pakene/e
+kalvet/a turn pale kalpene/n kalpene/e
laajet/a grow wider laajene/n laajene/e
The inflectional stem of tarvit/a verbs is formed by adding -se- to the
infinitive stem.
In lämmet/ä verbs the -t- of the infinitive stem changes to -ne- in the
inflectional stem.
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7 BASIC SENTENCE
STRUCTURE
• Present tense personal endings
• The nominative (basic form of nominals)
• Singular and plural
• The verb olla ‘(to) be’
• ‘To have’ in Finnish
• Negative sentences
• Questions and answers
• Concord of attributes
