Real spoken Finnish for Hungry? Let's Eat, with the written form (kirjakieli) beside every line, word-by-word notes and audio on every sentence. Free to read.
Meals: aamupala, lounas, päivällinen
A Finnish day runs on aamupala (breakfast), lounas (lunch, often the main hot meal) and päivällinen (dinner). 'Hungry' is 'on nälkä' - you HAVE hunger, as in 'mul on nälkä'. 'For breakfast' is aamupalaks (written aamupalaksi), 'for lunch' is lounaaks.
Mul on tosi nälkä. = I'm really hungry.
Mä syön aamupalaks puuroo. = I eat porridge for breakfast.
Mul on tosi nälkä.
I'm really hungry.
Written Finnish: Minulla on todella nälkä.
mul
I have - spoken 'minulla': the last syllable drops
on
is, there is
tosi
really - spoken 'todella'
nälkä
hunger
Mä syön aamupalaks puuroo.
I eat porridge for breakfast.
Written Finnish: Minä syön aamupalaksi puuroa.
mä
I - spoken 'minä'
syön
I eat - from 'syödä'
aamupalaks
for breakfast - spoken 'aamupalaksi': the final -i drops
puuroo
porridge - spoken partitive 'puuroa'
Mitä me syödään lounaaks?
What are we having for lunch?
Written Finnish: Mitä me syömme lounaaksi?
mitä
what
me
we
syödään
we eat - spoken 'syömme': speech borrows the passive form for 'we'
lounaaks
for lunch - spoken 'lounaaksi': the final -i drops