Learn Finnish in 30 Minutes - ALL the Basics You Need

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In this video, you’ll get started with Finnish in only X minutes! You will discover the key points of Finnish Grammar! This is THE place to start if you want to start learning Finnish.

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[beanzzinc]

I’m learning how to speak Finnish instead of doing my homework that was due last week

[aino]

Me
*speaks finnish every day and has spoke it for my entire life*
Also me
*Watches a how to learn finnish video*

[kyra]

Me: im gonna sleep earlier today
2am: tutusnia pyaaa hiiiavava

[plamenasiniye]

Numbers are actually pretty difficult especially if you try to understand what a Finn is saying. It's common in spoken Finnish to shorten the words for numbers. The words have different short versions for different purposes, for instance counting.
Yksi - Yy (when counting)
Kaksi - Kaa
Kolme - Koo
Neljä - Nee
Viisi - Vii
Kuusi - Kuu
Seitsemän - See
Kahdeksan - Kasi
Yhdeksän - Ysi
Kymmenen - Kymppi
And so on.

[dragoncat]

Me: Has Chinese and Japanese homework to do
Also me: nah, let's learn Finnish now

[Aaron-mjie]

The Duolingo Finnish course just came out last week. This is an excellent companion piece to it.

[georgevassilev]

Actually:

Hyvää päivää - Good Morning/Day
Hyvää iltapäivää - Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltaa - Good Evening

and if you want to wish a good sleep to someone
Hyvää yöta - Good night

For goodbye, you can also just say "Nähdään" and omit "pian".

There is also "Moi" instead of "Hei" and respectively "Moi moi" for "Hei hei". You can, in coloquial Finnish, also say "Heippa" (Bye bye) or "Moikka".

[heikkipalola]

i have never in my life actually heard anyone say nice to meet you in any language expect in these kinds of language learning videos

[HeartsBritneySpears]

Although I have literally little to no Finnish in me, my paternal grandfather's family (who adopted my father) are from Finland; and though I'm not of *true* Finnish blood, I'm determined to learn this difficult language after my grandfather's death. I may not be a *true* Fin, but I'm certain I've got sisu like a Fin. 🇫🇮❤️

[xxx]

Jesus this language 🤯🤯
You have FIVE TIMES the letter ä in the combination good day 😂😂

[SaDurN]

Finnish here, by the way no one speaks like this in real life. In paper it is "Hyvää päivää minun nimeni on xxx. Hauska tutustua." How we actually introduce ourselves is pretty different and there are many many different ways. For example "Moi oon (name) kiva nähä." or "Moro oon (name) mite menee. Etc etc. I dunno it just sounds very cringy to us if someone speaks like the words are actually written. xD

[n.jurenic]

Im finding it very interesting how i, as a native slavic speaker, have to put little to no effort in pronouncing those weird looking words. It comes naturally even though im totally unfamiliar with the words. Where ever you look people are saying that suomi is hard to learn but i find it way easier than german or french.

[livingwithsisu]

I think normally the informal way would be: "Hei, mun nimi on NAME". Already using nimeNI makes it formal. At least this is how I see this being used in the Helsinki area.

[cemgceylan]

Omg. this is really like Turkish.
The general grammar structure.
as i understand; sina means sunuz in Turkish (it even sounds close, easy to remember), and it has no meaning by itself alone.
you use it when you ask somebody politely if they ever do anything

First you change the main verb referring a second singular person (can be anybody, just directing thats all) Puhua to Puhut, then you add the "ko" word to make it a question (we use mu in this case), then you add sina to the verb which is already addressing to the second person and change the address to "you" :)

[ice_sea]

I am a hungarian watching this, and in hungarian "te" is the way to say "you" informally... meanwhile in finnish it's to say it formally, huh.

[zakomasterholleywood]

the cutest teacher in these language studying series by far

[blurryves]

Kaarija made me want to learn Finnish lmao

[makimakiyaa]

Kiitos paljon! I love Finland and Finnish language!😍🇫🇮

[mikePkV]

I already made up my mind where to go once I finish my degree so I'm learning Finnish in order to move out in a few years!! Wish me luck!!

[Bambi-TheBunny]

Thank you this helped me a lot! I’m going to Finland in 2 days and I wanted to learn some basic Finnish because I find it incredibly disrespectful to go to someone else’s country and not know their language, and just assume that THEY know English…. I hate it 😂