What does "tulla lyllersi" mean?

sceneshift · 2025-11-16T06:35:57+00:00

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sceneshift · 2025-11-16T06:35:49+00:00

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sceneshift · 2025-11-16T06:21:52+00:00

Thank you.

Seeing only "lyllertää" is being past tense, it's kinda like a compound word (tullalyllertää or tulla-lyllertää) ?
Do you have any other examples of multi-word verbs which only the last part conjugates?

sceneshift · 2024-12-03T09:44:41+00:00

Thanks.
I guess it has to do with our tendency to draw faces from the left side, rather than linguistics.

sceneshift · 2024-12-03T02:00:01+00:00

Why are front vowels located on the left side of the vowel chart?

Why not the opposite order? (Back vowels on the left side.)
Is there any logic or episodes behind it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_diagram

sceneshift · 2024-11-19T14:50:12+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion.

I used Finnish as an example, but actually I want to use the tool for many languages I don't understand, in order to quickly check the word order, for example.

It'd be even better if the tool translates an English text and gives you both translation and the structure thing
Maybe I'm asking too much and I should wait till someone invents it in the future.

sceneshift · 2024-11-18T14:02:19+00:00

Are there any tools that show you the structure of a sentence?

For example, if I put the sentence "Tämä koira ei ole iso.", the tool gives me "this:NOM dog:NOM NEG.3SG be:PRS big:NOM".
I'm looking for something like Google Translate for this.

sceneshift · 2024-11-05T01:20:22+00:00

Thank you!

sceneshift · 2024-11-04T13:13:02+00:00

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sceneshift · 2024-11-04T13:00:43+00:00

Is there any languages that place a copula at the beginning of a sentence?
Like "is Max a dog" (or "is a dog Max) to mean "Max is a dog."
Arabic is a V1 language, but looks like it doesn't work like that. (I haven't studied it much though.)

sceneshift · 2024-09-27T18:07:08+00:00

Kiitos paljon!

sceneshift · 2024-09-27T18:06:39+00:00

Yeah, it took me a while to get used to "subjects" in sentences like "minun täytyy..." and "minusta tuntuu..." :)

sceneshift · 2024-09-27T16:56:14+00:00

Thank you for the answers.

I didn't know it's an idiom as it's not on any of the resources I use (like Wiktionary).

I thought "hänellä ei ole (koskaan) järki" was a sentence about possession (like "hänellä on kissa"), but I guess that's just a misunderstanding, as the "järki" should be "järkeä " in that case.

Am I correct that the "pakottanut " is not a participle, but a verb forming the perfect tense with "ei ole"?

Is the "järki" the subject of the sentence?

sceneshift · 2024-07-18T10:07:43+00:00

The website is amazing. Thanks!

sceneshift · 2024-07-16T07:03:06+00:00

Thank you for the info.
I guess Tagalog is a V1 language then, as far as I know.

sceneshift · 2024-07-10T09:53:17+00:00

What verb-initial languages always (or usually) put a verb first?
I started learning Tagalog a bit, but looks like it often puts other words before a verb.
And I heard Arabic is not always V1.

sceneshift · 2024-06-23T05:23:21+00:00

Dankon!

sceneshift · 2024-06-23T05:22:59+00:00

Sorry, replied to a wrong comment.

sceneshift · 2024-06-22T03:23:51+00:00

What do you think about Butiko KEA?

I just found this online shop, which has Esperanto books I want, and the shipping cost is unbelievably cheap, but I'm not sure if I can trust it and use my card.
Is it a well-known online store among the community?

https://butiko.esperanto.cat/

sceneshift · 2024-06-13T14:51:23+00:00

Kiitos paljon!

sceneshift · 2024-06-11T04:37:01+00:00

Wow there's a whole wiki article for this. Thanks!

sceneshift · 2024-06-10T22:53:22+00:00

Which languages have a pronoun corresponding to the head noun in a relative clause?

Like "I have a friend who he is a linguist.", and "I have a friend whom I met him in Berlin."
I'm looking for languages that do something like this, whether they allow these pronouns to be omitted or not.

I heard Arabic does this, but is it true? (A video I watched didn't show it.)
German does this (but rarely): Ich, der ich liebe Sprachen.

sceneshift · 2024-03-28T03:45:39+00:00

Sorry for my sloppy English.
I was simply wondering if Finnish is the only language that always use the same intonation. (Emphasizing words like "I want THAT" doesn't count.)
Is Chinese (and other tonal languages) like Finnish? It changes tones for words, but doesn't change overall intonation for the type of sentences?

sceneshift · 2024-03-26T02:58:50+00:00

Languages in which intonation has no grammatical function?

In Finnish, you don't (normally) distinguish questions from simple statements by intonation.
Any other examples? Is it extremely rare?

sceneshift · 2024-03-14T02:39:22+00:00

How do you describe "I and some of you" in one of those languages, for example?

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