B1grammar· 6 min· +25 XP

The Past Tense -i-

To talk about the past, Finnish slots the past marker -i- between the verb stem and the personal ending. The six endings are exactly the ones you already know from the present, so the recipe is simple: stem + i + ending. puhu- + i + n = puhuin ("I spoke").

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