My name is Emmi Seppälä, a qualified language teacher, and I’m here to teach you Finnish. I share Finnish grammar tutorials, listening exercises, vocabulary lessons and tips on how to make your Finnish more expressive.

Some verbs in Finnish go together with a word or words that are in the illative case. This grammatical aspect in Finnish is quite significant and is crucial when you’re moving to a higher level in Finnish. Watch my video with Finnish example sentences containing verb + illative structures.

Learn these 6 different ways to use the Finnish verb SAADA.

If you’ve always used “minun täytyy” or “minun pitää” when you want to say “I have to” in Finnish, then watch this video to learn a different, more advanced way of saying it.