Even Finnish speakers might have a difficult time using some of them in a sentence: When are you going to need the negative form of the agent participle of the verb hypellä (to jump around) – hyppelemätön (roughly “not having been jumped around”)? How about the first-person plural imperative present negative form of kammata (to comb) – Älkäämme kammatko (Let us not comb)? Strangely, part of the fun is reading all the forms you’ll probably never have any occasion to utter. Guide to Finnish Verbs: 120 Finnish verbs fully conjugated (Finnlibri) offers help. However, Finnish verbs do contain certain twists and turns, so a conjugation table is in order. Verbs show how streamlined Finnish is: The future tense doesn’t exist – Finns just use the present tense, none of that future indicative you struggled with in French class. Trampoline grammar: It seems extremely unlikely that this Finnish person will ever have use for the negative participle of the verb “hypellä” (to jump around).
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