Learn how to use finite and infinitive verb forms in a sentence
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Eric: Hi everyone, and welcome back to FinnishPod101.com This is Intermediate Season 1 Lesson 11 - Shopping for Apartments in Finland. Eric here. |
| Päivi: Hei! I'm Päivi. |
| Eric: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the finite and infinitive forms of verbs in a sentence. The conversation takes place in a home that is for rent. |
| Päivi: It's between Heikki and estate agent . |
| Eric: The speakers are strangers, so they’ll use both formal and informal Finnish. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Asunto-esittelijä: Tervetuloa asuntonäyttöön! Sinä olet varmaankin Heikki? |
| Heikki: Kyllä vain, ja kiitos. |
| Asunto-esittelijä: Tämä asuntohan on tällä hetkellä kolmio, mutta jos haluatte purkaa tuon väliseinän ja tehdä tästä kaksion, niin se on ihan ok. |
| Heikki: Ahaa, se on hyvä tietää. Voisimme kyllä hieman remontoida täällä. |
| Asunto-esittelijä: Se sopii. Taloyhtiö on kuitenkin teettämässä putkiremontin kahden vuoden päästä, ottakaa se huomioon. |
| Heikki: Selvä. Milloin tämä talo on rakennettu? |
| Asunto-esittelijä: Vuonna 1932. Putkiremontti on tehty viimeksi vuonna 1977, jolloin rakennettiin myös hissi. |
| Heikki: Voimmeko harrastaa täällä musiikkia? |
| Asunto-esittelijä: No, kohtuudella voi. Oletteko muusikko? |
| Heikki: En toki, mutta vaimoni haluaa laulaa silloin tällöin. Minä säestän häntä pianolla. |
| Asunto-esittelijä: Sehän on hienoa! |
| Eric: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Estate Agent: Welcome to the housing display! You must be Heikki? |
| Heikki: Oh yes, and thank you. |
| Estate Agent: So this apartment is currently a three-room apartment, but if you want to tear down that partition wall and make this into a two-room apartment, that is quite all right. |
| Heikki: Okay, that's good to know. We could renovate here a little bit. |
| Estate Agent: That's ok. However, the housing association will have the plumbing re-done in two years, so please take that into consideration. |
| Heikki: Right. When was this house built? |
| Estate Agent: In 1932. The last time the plumbing was re-done was in 1977, when they also built the elevator. |
| Heikki: Can we practice music here? |
| Estate Agent: Well, in moderation you can. Are you a musician? |
| Heikki: Oh no, but my wife wants to sing occasionally. I accompany her on piano. |
| Estate Agent: Oh that's great! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Eric: Päivi, could you tell us something about the typical Finnish house? |
| Päivi: In Finland, the most common way to live is in town houses, apartment buildings, or row houses. |
| Eric: Do people usually rent a place or buy it? |
| Päivi: Most Finns see it as an asset to own their own place and more than 50% do. Many also dream of owning their own town house, and quite a few take out a loan and build the house of their dreams. |
| Eric: Is it true that many houses, even apartments, have their own sauna? |
| Päivi: Yes, aside from toilet facilities, washing facilities and basic equipment for cooking, many places also have a sauna, though sometimes it’s a shared one in apartment buildings. |
| Eric: What are the Finnish words for the most common buildings? |
| Päivi: omakotitalo |
| Eric: "town house," |
| Päivi: rivitalo, |
| Eric: "row house," |
| Päivi: asunto |
| Eric: “apartment” |
| Päivi: If it’s a “owner-occupied flat” it’s omistusasunto, and if it’s rented it’s called vuokra-asunto. |
| Eric: Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Eric: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Päivi: kolmio [natural native speed] |
| Eric: three-room apartment |
| Päivi: kolmio[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: kolmio [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: purkaa [natural native speed] |
| Eric: to tear down, to dismantle |
| Päivi: purkaa[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: purkaa [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: väliseinä [natural native speed] |
| Eric: partition wall |
| Päivi: väliseinä[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: väliseinä [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: kaksio [natural native speed] |
| Eric: two-room apartment |
| Päivi: kaksio[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: kaksio [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: remontoida [natural native speed] |
| Eric: to renovate, to decorate |
| Päivi: remontoida[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: remontoida [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: taloyhtiö [natural native speed] |
| Eric: housing association |
| Päivi: taloyhtiö[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: taloyhtiö [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: teettää [natural native speed] |
| Eric: to have done |
| Päivi: teettää[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: teettää [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: putkiremontti [natural native speed] |
| Eric: re-do plumbing, plumbing renovation |
| Päivi: putkiremontti[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: putkiremontti [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Päivi: hissi [natural native speed] |
| Eric: elevator |
| Päivi: hissi[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: hissi [natural native speed] |
| Eric: And last.. |
| Päivi: säestää [natural native speed] |
| Eric: to accompany |
| Päivi: säestää[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Päivi: säestää [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Eric: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Päivi: kolmio |
| Eric: meaning "three-room apartment." |
| Päivi: You can use this word either when you’re talking about a three-room apartment, or when talking about a triangular geometric shape. |
| Eric: The meaning will be easily understood from the situation or context. Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Päivi: Sure. For example, you can say.. Kolmiossa on tilaa myös lemmikeille. |
| Eric: ..which means "A three-room-apartment also has space for pets." Okay, what's the next word? |
| Päivi: taloyhtiö |
| Eric: meaning "housing association." |
| Päivi: The noun talo means "house," and yhtiö means either "association," "company," or "corporation." |
| Eric: You can use this word when you’re talking about a housing association, which is a company established to own and govern one or more buildings. Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Päivi: Sure. For example, you can say.. Tämä taloyhtiö on tunnetusti hiukan tiukka. |
| Eric: .. which means "This housing association is known to be a little rigorous." Okay, what's the next word? |
| Päivi: putkiremontti |
| Eric: meaning "plumbing renovation." |
| Päivi: The noun putki means "tube," "pipe," or "funnel," and remontti means "renovation" or "decoration." |
| Eric: You can use this word to describe a process in which the plumbing of a house, apartment, or a building is being renewed and restored. |
| Päivi: Every apartment building in Finland has to renew their plumbing, water fittings, water insulation and tiling every 40 to 50 years. |
| Eric: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Päivi: Sure. For example, you can say.. Putkiremontti on vihdoin ohi. |
| Eric: .. which means "The plumbing renovation is finally over." Okay, now onto the lesson focus. |
Lesson focus |
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| Eric: In this lesson you'll learn how to use the finite and infinitive forms of verbs in a sentence. |
| Päivi: When there are two verbs in a sentence, the basic rule is that one verb is conjugated according to the person, and the other verb is in its infinite, basic, form. For example Haluan katsoa elokuvan, |
| Eric: meaning “I want to watch a movie.” |
| Päivi: Here’s another. Voimme kävellä kotiin saakka. |
| Eric: “We can walk until we get home.” There were also some examples in the dialogue, right? |
| Päivi: Yes, like Voisimme kyllä hieman remontoida täällä. |
| Eric: “We could renovate here a little bit.” Ok, now let’s expand on the topic. Let’s talk about the third infinitive or the MA-infinitive. |
| Päivi: Sometimes when there are two verbs in a sentence, the other verb can behave like a noun. One of these verb forms is the third infinitive, which in Finnish is also known as ma-infinitiivi. |
| Eric: This infinitive corresponds with the English -ing form, or the verb noun. It can answer the questions “where?”, “where from?”, and “where to?”. |
| Päivi: Right, in fact the third infinitive can have inessive, elative and illative cases. |
| Eric: How is it formed? |
| Päivi: The third infinitive is formed from the present tense 3rd person plural stem, adding the -ma or -mä suffix, and the correct case ending. |
| Eric: Let’s look at the verb that means “to write.” |
| Päivi: Starting from kirjoitta-vat, which is the 3rd person plural, we just have to add the right suffix to the stem kirjoitta-, kirjoittamassa |
| Eric: meaning “in writing,” |
| Päivi: kirjoittamasta |
| Eric: meaning “from writing,” |
| Päivi: kirjoittamaan |
| Eric: meaning “to writing.” Päivi, please give us three different examples using the different cases. |
| Päivi: For the inessive case, Olin juuri kirjoittamassa. |
| Eric: “I was just writing.” |
| Päivi: For the elative case, Tuletko kirjoittamasta? |
| Eric: “Are you coming from writing?” |
| Päivi: For the illative case, Mennään kirjoittamaan. |
| Eric: “Let’s go write.” Now, let’s see the fourth infinitive, which refers to verbs as nouns. |
| Päivi: The characteristic for this infinitive is the -minen ending. The -minen ending is added to the 3rd plural stem of the verb. |
| Eric: In English an equivalent to this infinitive would be the "-ing" form of a verb. |
| Päivi: The fourth infinitive is conjugated normally in all cases. For example, when the -minen form is first in a sentence which also has the olla verb, meaning “to be,” the possible adjective has to be in partitive. You’ll see this in Lukeminen on mielenkiintoista. |
| Eric: “Reading is interesting.” |
| Päivi: When there is an object related to the verb in front of the -minen form, the object is in the genitive case. For example, Taulun maalaaminen on hauskaa. |
| Eric: Literally “Painting the painting is fun.” |
| Päivi: Right, it can also be said as On hauskaa maalata taulu. |
| Eric: This structure is more similar to the English ”It is fun to paint the painting.” |
| Päivi: Another example for the fourth infinitive is Auton korjaaminen on rankkaa. |
| Eric: “Fixing the car is tough.” Ok, to wrap up this lesson, let’s give a quick list of vocabulary related to housing that might be useful when asking questions about accommodation. What’s the Finnish for “to sublease” or “to sublet”? |
| Päivi: alivuokrata |
| Eric: “home insurance”? |
| Päivi: kotivakuutus |
| Eric: “tenant” and “lessor”? |
| Päivi: vuokralainen and vuokranantaja |
| Eric: Listeners, you will find more information about this in the lesson notes, so don’t forget to check them out! |
Outro |
| Eric: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Päivi: Hei hei! |
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