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| INTRODUCTION |
| Michael: Hi everyone, and welcome back to FinnishPod101.com. This is Beginner Season 1 Lesson 21 - Planning Your Escape from the Finnish City. Michael here. |
| Nico: Hei. I'm Nico. |
| Michael: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the essive case and the verb meaning “intend to” to communicate future plans. The conversation takes place in a private home. |
| Nico: It's between Aino and Heikki. |
| Michael: The speakers are married, so they’ll be using informal Finnish. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Aino: Heikki, mitä aiot tehdä viikonloppuna? |
| Heikki: En mitään erityistä. Ensi viikolla menen työmatkalle, joten haluaisin vain rentoutua. |
| Aino: Mentäisiinkö huomisiltana kävelyretkelle rannalle, illaksi on luvattu aurinkoista säätä? |
| Heikki: Se on ihan hyvä idea. Ja ylihuomenna voimme katsoa elokuvan. |
| Aino: Katsotaan vain. Tänään aion lämmittää saunan. |
| Michael: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Aino: Heikki, mitä aiot tehdä viikonloppuna? |
| Heikki: En mitään erityistä. Ensi viikolla menen työmatkalle, joten haluaisin vain rentoutua. |
| Aino: Mentäisiinkö huomisiltana kävelyretkelle rannalle, illaksi on luvattu aurinkoista säätä? |
| Heikki: Se on ihan hyvä idea. Ja ylihuomenna voimme katsoa elokuvan. |
| Aino: Katsotaan vain. Tänään aion lämmittää saunan. |
| Michael: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Aino: Heikki, what are you going to do on the weekend? |
| Heikki: Nothing special. Next week I’m going on a work trip, so I’d like to just relax. |
| Aino: Shall we go for a walk on the beach tomorrow evening, since they’ve promised sunny weather? |
| Heikki: That’s quite a good idea. And the day after tomorrow we can watch a movie. |
| Aino: Sure, let's do it. Today I’m going to heat up the sauna. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Michael: Nico, what leisure time activities do Finns like most? |
| Nico: Finns like to get some fresh air during their leisure time, and jogging, walking, and nordic walking are very common and popular ways to exercise. |
| Michael: What about people living in cities? |
| Nico: People who live in town houses will usually do some gardening, rake leaves, or shovel snow in the winter. |
| Michael: After all that effort, I suppose that the best way to relax is to heat up the famous Finnish sauna! |
| Nico: That’s right! You should know that practically everyone who lives in a townhouse or terraced house has their own sauna, and there is almost always at least a communal sauna in apartment buildings. |
| Michael: Wow! That must make winter enjoyable! Is there any word we should learn for this topic? |
| Nico: Here’s a good one - kiuas. |
| Michael: Which means "sauna heater." Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Michael: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Nico: aikoa [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to intend, to be going to do |
| Nico: aikoa[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: aikoa [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: viikonloppu [natural native speed] |
| Michael: weekend |
| Nico: viikonloppu[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: viikonloppu [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: erityinen [natural native speed] |
| Michael: special |
| Nico: erityinen[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: erityinen [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: ensi [natural native speed] |
| Michael: next |
| Nico: ensi[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: ensi [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: viikolla [natural native speed] |
| Michael: (during the) week |
| Nico: viikolla[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: viikolla [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: rentoutua [natural native speed] |
| Michael: to relax |
| Nico: rentoutua[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: rentoutua [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: huomisiltana [natural native speed] |
| Michael: tomorrow evening |
| Nico: huomisiltana[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: huomisiltana [natural native speed] |
| Michael: Next we have.. |
| Nico: ylihuomenna [natural native speed] |
| Michael: the day after tomorrow |
| Nico: ylihuomenna[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Nico: ylihuomenna [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Michael: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Nico: viikonloppu, |
| Michael: meaning "weekend." |
| Nico: Just like the English, the Finnish word is made of two terms viikko meaning "week," and loppu which means "end." |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Onneksi on jo viikonloppu! |
| Michael: ..which means "Thankfully it's already the weekend!" Okay, what's the next word? |
| Nico: työmatka |
| Michael: meaning "work trip, business trip." |
| Nico: työmatka is also comprised of two words, työ meaning "work" and matka, which is “trip" or "travel." |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Minulla on ensi viikolla työmatka Lontooseen. |
| Michael: .. which means "I have a business trip to London next week." |
| Michael: What about if you’re traveling for pleasure, is there a similar word? |
| Nico: Yes. When you’re travelling for leisure, and particularly when you’re on a package holiday, you can say lomamatka, loma being "holiday" and matka being "trip" or "travel." |
| Michael: Okay, what's the next word? |
| Nico: ylihuomenna |
| Michael: meaning "the day after tomorrow." |
| Nico: ylihuomenna is made up of two parts - yli meaning "over" and huomenna meaning "tomorrow." |
| Michael: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Nico: Sure. For example, you can say.. Ylihuomenna on lauantai. |
| Michael: .. which means "The day after tomorrow is Saturday." Okay, now onto the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Michael: In this lesson you’ll learn how to discuss future plans. |
| Nico: You’ll learn how to use the essive case and the verb aikoa, meaning “to intend to,” to communicate future plans. |
| Michael: Let’s start with a sentence from the dialogue, |
| Nico: mitä aiot tehdä viikonloppuna? |
| Michael: Meaning “what are you going to do on the weekend?" This is a useful phrase for making conversation. Could you break it down? |
| Nico: Sure, Mitä is the question word and means "what." aiot is the conjugated form of aikoa, meaning "you are going to." tehdä means "to do," and viikonloppuna is "on the weekend." |
| Michael: Depending on the situation you may need a different time expression, for example, “tomorrow” instead of “on the weekend.” What would “tomorrow” be in Finnish? |
| Nico: huomenna. |
| Michael: And what if you want to ask about a weekday? |
| Nico: This is where you need the essive case. |
| Michael: Let’s first say that the essive is a grammatical case that is expressing something as “being something” as their state of being. The essive case is expressing an abstract or conceptual state of being. Nico, could you give an example? |
| Nico: For example, “as a mother,” äitinä. You can form the essive case by adding a -na or -nä ending to the stem of the word. |
| Michael: Let’s try with the weekdays. |
| Nico: For example, “Monday” is maanantai , and “on Monday” is [slowly] maanantaina |
| Michael: What’s “on Saturday”? |
| Nico: lauantaina. |
| Michael: So all we have to do is change the ending of the word? |
| Nico: Yes, but please know that not all words take the ending -na. There are a few irregularities. For example, the expression ensi viikko, meaning "next week," needs the ending -lla. Also, look at words like huomenna, |
| Michael: meaning “tomorrow” |
| Nico: and ylihuomenna |
| Michael: “the day after tomorrow.” |
| Nico: You’ll notice that they already have the -na ending and don’t need to be changed. |
| Michael: Ok. Now let’s see how to answer and talk about your plans. |
| Nico: To answer the question mitä aiot tehdä viikonloppuna?, you could say something like Minä aion mennä elokuviin. |
| Michael: "I'm going to go to the movies." |
| Nico: Minä aion means "I'm going to," so mennä elokuviin means "to go to the movies." Elokuva is the basic form of "a movie," and elokuviin is the form you would use to indicate "to the movies." The verb mennä, “to go,” is in the infinitive form here. |
| Michael: You can replace it with other verbs in the infinitive form as well. So Nico, can you give us an example? |
| Nico: Yes, for example Minä aion laulaa. |
| Michael: “I am going to sing.” Let’s see the full conjugation for the Finnish verb “to intend to.” |
| Nico: Sure thing! First we have Minä aion.. |
| Michael: Which means “I am going to …” |
| Nico: Sinä aiot.. |
| Michael: “You are going to …” |
| Nico: Hän aikoo.. |
| Michael: “He or She is going to …” |
| Nico: Me aiomme.. |
| Michael: “We are going to …” |
| Nico: Te aiotte.. |
| Michael: “You are going to …” |
| Nico: He aikovat.. |
| Michael: “They are going to …” Ok, now let’s give some practical examples. |
| Nico: For example, Tänään aion mennä uimaan. |
| Michael: “I am going to go swimming today.” |
| Nico: Me aiomme tanssia ensi viikolla. |
| Michael: “We are going to dance next week.” |
| Nico: Aion mennä kirjastoon huomenna. |
| Michael: "I am going to go to the library tomorrow." |
Outro |
| Michael: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Nico: Hei hei. |
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