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englannintäysiveristen
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English (language). Show more arrow right englannin kieli Show more arrow right In a simple question such as what is your mother tongue where the verb is the auxiliary olla (“to be”) the answer is in the nominative case.Mikä on sinun äidinkielesi?Englanti. (Context distinguishes the meaning to be the language English and not the country England)In a question Do you speak [a language]? (and in the answer to it), the name of the language is in partitive case because the verb of action (speaking) is irresultative.Puhutteko englantia?Do you speak English?Puhun englantia vain vähän, mutta saksani on erinomaista.I speak English only a little, but my German is excellent. (Note: saksani is nominative and not partitive because of the auxiliary verb olla)The expression in [a language] is translated with translative case:Miten tämä sanotaan suomeksi?How do you say this in Finnish?The adjectives indicating the language of a text or speech are formed by putting the name of the language in genitive case and adding -kielinen:Onko teillä englanninkielisiä sanomalehtiä?Do you have any English-language newspapers? Show more arrow right amerikanenglanti Show more arrow right See Englanti. Show more arrow right
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