5 Positional Words in Finnish: PÄÄLLÄ, ALLA, EDESSÄ, TAKANA & VIERESSÄ | Part 1 "The Basics" 

Hi Katja, Greeting from Ireland!! I hope you are enjoying the sights around Edinburgh, Hyvää viikonloppua!!

@@karhukivi Kiitos paljon, yes I'm loving Edinburgh! And hello to Ireland :)

@@KatChatsFinnish I know I haven't been around but you're still my Beautiful love! Lol

Oooooh, is it really SO slow?! I sympathize you, that is great you did it! ❤️❤️❤️

@@merclangrat Thank you hahah my next video took 10 hours to upload xD

Yeah I actually only noticed it myself as I was editing! Thank you for the insightful comment 😊

Aww you're so sweet. Thank you seriously so so much, kiitos tosi tosi paljon! It makes me so happy to hear that you enjoy my videos and hopefully I can continue to make many more in the future :)

@@KatChatsFinnish the pleasure is all mine, and you deserve all the appreciation there is ❤️

Kiitos :)

What a coincidence 😊 Good refresher then!

Kiitos paljon! :D

OH thank you! I'm glad you noticed the beagle on my phone xD Thank you so much and hope you can visit here someday, it's one of my favorite cities! :)

Thank you so much! It takes me a very long time to make the subtitles so it makes me very happy to hear that you find them useful! :)

Happy to hear that! :)

It’s my favorite city too 😍 I’m so happy you liked it so much as well :)

Glad you liked it! And yeah when you put it like that it's kinda funny xD

Kiitos :)

Kiitos paljon!

And maybe "prepositon" was the word you were looking for. But since in Finnish those 'location words' come after the word that needs location-defining maybe 'postpositions' nails it better ^^

Oh! I like the word postpositions hahah. And no I didn't take Sidney 😊 I wouldn't want to take her on an airplane. She has always been our family dog so she lives with my parents and is currently still there :)

Kiitos paljon! Kiva, että viihdyt Turussa :) Onnea suomen kielen opiskelussa!

Kiitos paljon! Sinä motivoit ja inspiroit minua tulemaan Suomeen. Olen fanisi :)

Thank youuu! Sidney is doing well, she has another vet appointment today to check her condition so hopefully everything will be okay or at least on the way to being okay! She is my family dog so she has always lived with my parents :)

Kiitos 😊

Kiitos! 😊

Thanks! She's doing well thanks for asking :) She has another vet appointment to see if everything has healed or not so hoping all is well :D

You would use the second sentence! So in the past tense “käytin tätä uutta liettä” or present tense ”käytän tätä uutta liettä” :)

Hahaha all is good! Just here for a bit meeting up with old university friends and enjoying the atmosphere of Edinburgh :D Plus the weather is still so summery it's great!

@@KatChatsFinnish Oh, catching up with old friends is fun and Edinburgh's a great city - have fun! Just promise you won't use any of our (apparently) irreplacable petrol.

Thank you, and yes I am 😊

Thank you sincerely so much, I truly appreciate your kindness. I'm really glad you enjoyed my video and I will try my best to continue to make good videos for you to learn more :)

The full paradigm of "taka-" (behind) words is "takana, takaa, taakse". So it takes the essive, partitive and translative cases. There is also "luo-" (around) with the paradigm "luona, luota, luokse". Also note "ulko-" (outside) with the paradigm "ulkona, ulkoa, ulos", where the last form has the defunct lative case "-s". There are several other similarly behaving words. Postpositional words that have this kind of case paradigm are very old, and their paradigms have preserved some of the oldest known uses of Finnish cases. Some forms even still use the lative case "-s", which is not used in modern Finnish by itself anymore. (The lative "-s(e)" still exists in the case system as part of the "-ssa" and "-sta" cases, which are originally a combination of lative "-s(e)" with essive "-na" or partitive "-(t)a", respectively. It also exists in the translative "-ksi" or "-kse".) Additionally, with regards to "ete-" (front) and several other positional words, two different case paradigms coexist, corresponding to the modern Finnish distinction of "inner" and "outer" locative cases. So "ete-" can take the forms "edessä, edestä, eteen" and also "edellä, edeltä, edelle", depending on the nuance of how close the topic being talked about is to the main word of the postposition. Same thing with "viere-" (next to), the two case paradigms coexist. There are more weird things and nuances with this class of words (such as "alhaalla, alhaalta, alas" vs. "alla, alta, alle") but this comment is definitely long enough now, so I'll stop here...

Kiitos! :)

Kiitos for watching 😊

The car is in front it makes. Like when someone is passing the road then suddenly tell him Auto on edessä

Yes, makes perfect sense! And thanks, loving it here :)

@@KatChatsFinnish glad to hear it!

Wow! You are the first person to give me an applause 😱 Thank you seriously so so much and I hope you enjoyed my video 🙏🏻 Kiitos tosi tosi paljon!

Hmm, I think takana (to my ears) sounds more like "on the behind" and taka sounds more like "back" eg. takakontti = back trunk (in a car)

That's so kind of you 🥺

Koska unkari is similar to Finnish (forgetten cousin who last with you many years ago (similar words because both are from uralic branch ) are similar

@@tamperetexsas8727 Yes, indeed. I'm Hungarian and have been learning Finnish for a while. I can definitely see the similarities, but you're right, they quite distant cousins. 😉

@@mokuscsik The closest cousins of Magyar are geographically the farthest Fenno-Ugric languages from Finland/Finnish (Hanti and Manži) so logically the similarities are not very obvious. Finnish and Magyar are basically in the opposite ends of lingual continuum. Many farming/nature/family/body etc. related core words are similar and the grammarical elements are shared by most uralic languages.

@@mrj.kottari8453 yes, thanks for this! I remember learning about it back in school. I since have looked it up many times and it's really weird, as I should understand what they say, but it's a very old version of Hungarian. And they write in Cyrillic. 😁 And that's exactly why we were taught that Hungarians migrated from the Ural area to where they are now (well, this is one theory, amongst many)

Hahah I don't know 👀 It was a long time coming even making it to Scotland xD

Kiitos :)

Kiitos!

I don't know if it means anything in particular. There are a few small cities called Hakkala though and the variation of Hakala is pretty popular.

Mmh ääressä kinda implies you are on the side of something just to be there or huddled there.

Yeah, so äärellä would translate more to like "by the..." for example "by the river" = "joen äärellä" or "by the table" = "pöydän ääressä" the slight nuance is similar to English I think. And then vieressä is "next to"

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Хороший вопрос= Hyvää kysymys :). Добрая собака. Kiltti koira.

Mun koira on perheeni luona Suomessa :)

About direction in Finnish

There are two meanings for the word "koko" :) One is "size" so it would be a noun (Eg. Paitani koko on S = My shirt size is S). The other meaning is "whole" which would be an adjective (Eg. Koko koulu = The whole school)

@@KatChatsFinnish Kiitos paljon my lovely 🥰

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Kiitos!

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Thanks 😅

Hahahah! I'm visiting uni friends so here for just a while :) I will experience the cold soon again xD

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Hahahah yep yep! :D