Finnish Writing Challenge

In a writing challenge, I take a sentence from a recent Duolingo lesson.

Then, I challenge myself to see what I can actively learn by creating some new sentences of my own.

Finnish:  Kissat tanssivat tangoa.

English: The

 

cats

 dance 

the

 

tango

.

Reflection: Notice each underlines section is two words in English, but only one in Finnish.   Cats has an articulated noun (the+cats as one word). So, the suffix, is the -t ending on the end of kissa.

Verb (by pronouns)

tense: present active

minä	tanssin             I dance
sinä	tanssit             you dance
hän	tanssii             he dances
me	tanssimme     we dance
te	tanssitte         you all dance
he	tanssivat         they dance

Noun (by number singular vs plural)

Finnish kissa (singular)

English the cat 

Finnish  kissat (plural)

English the cats

Finnish koira (singular)

English the dog 

Finnish koirat (plural)

English the dogs 

Vocabulary (other topical vocab)

Finnish tangoa

English the tango

Finnish salsaa

English the salsa

Challenge created 10 sentences

Underlined = extension vocab

Kissat tanssivat tangoa.

PLUS

Kissa tanssii tangoa.

Koirat tanssivat tangoa.

Koira tanssii salsaa.

Minä tanssin tangoa.

Sinä tanssit tangoa.

Hän tansii tangoa.

Me tanssimme salsa.

Te tanssitte salsa.

He tanssivat salsa.

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