Finnish Nouns

Welcome to the third Finnish lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Finnish to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes perunoita

tomatoes tomaatteja

onions sipuleita

carrots porkkanoita

fruits hedelmiä

apples omenoita

bananas banaaneja

oranges appelsiineja

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Finnish
do you have milk? [verb + noun] onko teillä maitoa?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] minulla on maitoa ja kahvia
he has three apples [number + plural noun] hänellä on kolme omenaa
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] hänellä on vain yksi omena
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] asumme pienessä talossa
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] pidän aamiaisestamme

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread leipä

milk maito

butter voi

cheese juusto

coffee kahvi

sandwich voileipä

meat liha

chicken kana

fish kala

breakfast aamiainen

lunch lounas

dinner päivällinen

Conversation in Finnish

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Finnish
Do you speak (English/ Finnish)? puhutko englantia/suomea?
Just a little vain vähän
I like Finnish pidän suomen kielestä
Can I practice with you? saanko harjoitella kanssasi?
How old are you? kuinka vanha olet?
I'm thirty three years old olen kolmekymmentäkolme vuotta vanha
It was nice talking to you oli mukava jutella

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