Real spoken Finnish for Winter and the Car, with the written form (kirjakieli) beside every line, word-by-word notes and audio on every sentence. Free to read.
Talvikeli: on liukasta, sataa lunta
Weather sentences have no subject at all. The verb sits alone in the third person and the describing word takes the partitive: on liukasta, on pakkasta, sataa lunta. You will hear this every winter day, usually as the first thing anyone says to you.
Ulkona on tosi liukasta. = It's really slippery outside.
Sataa lunta. = It's snowing.
Ulkona on tosi liukasta.
It's really slippery outside.
Written Finnish: Ulkona on tosi liukasta.
ulkona
outside
tosi
really
liukasta
slippery - partitive of 'liukas'
Ootsä jo vaihtanu talvirenkaat?
Have you changed to winter tyres yet?
Written Finnish: Oletko sinä jo vaihtanut talvirenkaat?
ootsä
have you - spoken 'oletko sinä'
vaihtanu
changed - spoken 'vaihtanut'
talvirenkaat
winter tyres - required on Finnish roads through the winter months
Ajokeli on tänään aika huono.
The driving conditions are pretty bad today.
Written Finnish: Ajokeli on tänään aika huono.
ajokeli
driving conditions - the word the morning radio uses
tänään
today
aika
fairly
huono
bad
Mun pitää kaapii ikkunat.
I have to scrape the windows.
Written Finnish: Minun pitää kaapia ikkunat.
pitää
have to
kaapii
to scrape - spoken 'kaapia'
ikkunat
windows - plural of 'ikkuna'
Laitatsä auton tolppaan?
Are you plugging the car in?
Written Finnish: Laitatko sinä auton tolppaan?
laitatsä
will you put - spoken 'laitatko sinä'
auton
the car - object form of 'auto'
tolppaan
into the post - the 'lämmitystolppa' that keeps an engine warm overnight