Exercise Categories
Work through the CEFR-aligned exercise tracks for this pair — each category drills a single theme, from greetings to getting around.
50 exercises · Levels A1 → A2 → B1 → B2 → C1
First Steps
Pronouns and the verb olla
Marina lands in Helsinki and meets Luana at a café. Learn the personal pronouns, the verb olla (to be), and the relief that Finnish has no articles and no gender.
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First Words
Greetings, numbers, adjectives
No articles, no gender. Pick up the greetings you'll use every day, count from 1 to 20, and describe things with basic adjectives at a welcome dinner.
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In the City
Verb endings and questions
Conjugate present-tense verbs with the six personal endings, ask yes/no questions with -ko/-kö, and find your way around Helsinki.
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Food and Culture
The partitive: some coffee, please
Order food and drink and meet the partitive case — the ending for "some" — over coffee and at the harbour market.
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Home and Family
Having things, genitive, family
Say "I have" with minulla on, form the genitive -n and possessive suffixes, and name the rooms of a house and the family.
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Places and Time
The six local cases
The heart of Finnish endings: the six local cases (in/from/into and at/from/to), telling the time, and numbers to 100.
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Health
The body and how you feel
Name parts of the body and describe symptoms at the doctor's using minulla on and the partitive.
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The Object
Total vs. partial objects
Choose between a total object (-n) and a partitive object — the deep idea that does the work English gives to "the" and "a".
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Modal Verbs and Gradation
voida, haluta, täytyy, gradation
Say what you can, want, and must with the modal verbs — and understand consonant gradation, the reason stems soften.
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Shopping
Demonstratives and comparatives
Point with tämä/tuo/se, compare with -mpi, and shop for clothes and colours at the flea market.
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Preferences and Opinions
Liking with pitää + -sta
Say what you like with pitää + -sta/-stä, prefer with mieluummin, and talk about hobbies and free time.
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The Past Tense
The imperfect marker -i-
Tell what happened with the past-tense marker -i-, from yesterday's errands to childhood summers at the lake.
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The Perfect Tense
olla + -nut/-nyt
Say what you have done with the perfect tense: olla plus the -nut/-nyt participle.
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Plans and Travel
The future via the present
Talk about the future using the present tense, name the days, months, and seasons, and plan a trip north to Lapland.
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The Conditional Mood
Would: the -isi- conditional
Open the door to things that would happen. Form the conditional with the marker -isi-, use it for politeness and wishes, and take Luana's advice before a big meeting.
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If-Sentences and Hypotheticals
Unreal conditions, present and past
Imagine what is not true. Build jos (if) sentences with the conditional in both halves, form the past unreal with olisi + participle, and say "as if" with ikään kuin.
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Opinions and Debates
minusta, and the clitic particles
Say what you think and defend it. Express opinions with minusta/mielestäni, agree and disagree, and master the clitic particles -han, -pa, -kin, -kaan that carry all the tone.
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Idioms and Spoken Finnish
Everyday idioms and puhekieli
The Finnish you actually hear. Learn everyday idioms and the gap between written Finnish and spoken puhekieli (mä/sä, me mennään, tää/toi) — the register of every café in Kallio.
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Professional Finnish
Formal register and email
The Finnish of the workplace. Switch between informal sinä and formal te (teitittely), write a brief professional email, and use polite conditional forms in a job interview.
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