I am trying to figure out the difference between these verb forms...
Let's take Nähdä as an example.
Minä näen - I see
ok, but how about:
minä näin
minä nähnen
minä näkisin
minä olen nähnyt
minä olin nähnyt
minä lienen nähnyt
minä olisin nähnyt
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Let's take Nähdä as an example.
Minä näen - I see
ok, but how about:
minä näin
minä nähnen
minä näkisin
minä olen nähnyt
minä olin nähnyt
minä lienen nähnyt
minä olisin nähnyt
0_o
Vastaukset 11
Vanhimmat
minä näin = I saw
minä nähnen = I think I see / I might see
minä näkisin = I would see
minä olen nähnyt = I have seen
minä olin nähnyt = I had seen
minä lienen nänyt = I think I have seen / I might have seen
minä olisin nähnyt = I would have seen
Hope this was helpful -at least a bit :)
yay, thanks!!! it helped a lot :)
But hmmm how do I say "I have been seen" then? I thought it would have been one of those...
= minut on nahty!
minä nähnen = I think I see / I might see...
I think 'nähnen' is a future. In that case 'minä nähnen' translates as 'I will see'.
Probably, you might be grammatically right, but it's (nähnen) not a common way to say it at all in Finnish. Actually it is very weird. I have never heard anyone to use it.
Go for this:
I will see = tulen näkemään
"Nähnen" points to expression "may" or "might"..
It would points to the future as well.
actually "nähnen" is not even grammatically right.
I saw
I may see
I would see
I have seen
I had seen
I might have seen
I would have seen
minä näin I saw
minä nähnen I might see
minä näkisin I would see
minä olen nähnyt I have seen
minä olin nähnyt I had seen
minä lienen nähnyt I may have seen
minä olisin nähnyt I would have seen
See this ! :
http://www.verbix.com/cache/webverbix/10.n%E4hd%E4.shtml
Yep, that's exactly where I got the thing from, but those names like 'Pluperfect, potential perfect, conditional perfect' don't make anything clear to me :P I wish they had the actual translations to everything there
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