Swedish language is a Germanic language that is spoken in Sweden and in Finland. In Finland, the Swedish language is the second official language. Swedish is spoken on coastal areas in Finland.
There are four main variants of the Swedish in Finland as shown on the map. The spoken variations differ quite a lot from each other, but as a written language they are all the same. The written language is the same in Finland and in Sweden.
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There is a less known mood in Finnish, the optative.
This mood is mainly archaic, and it appears mainly in poetry.
Although the Finnish optative mood is not used today, it has borrowed the 3rd person to the Finnish imperative mood.
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There’s an “Easter Egg” in Verbix 9 for Windows.
An Easter Egg in software is a hidden feature that is not documented. In Verbix 9 the hidden feature creates a Spanish Verb Conjugation book and saves it as PDF. This article describes how to use the book. As a matter of fact, this book is used exactly in the same way as any verb conjugation book that you can buy in a bookstore!
1. First look up the verb from the verb index.
As in many verb conjugation books, the Spanish Verb Conjugation book created in Verbix for Windows 9.0 has an index of verbs.
Let’s find for example ‘ser’ (English ‘to be’).
2. Check the verb model that the verb refers to.
In the index the verb ‘ser’ is marked with number 1. This number refers to the verb conjugation table 1. Now that we browse the book to verb conjugation table 1, we find the verb ser conjugated in all tenses.
As in Verbix, irregular forms are displayed in red and regular forms are in black.
About the Spanish Verb Conjugation Book
The book has an index of 38,395 verbs.
The book comprises 231 pages.
Color coding clearly shows additional information of every verb form:
The book is free!
I was looking for something — can’t really know for what — when I discovered a short article that I had teared off from some newspaper.
The article tells about a stone with runic inscriptions that has been found in Eksymäjärvi, near Oulu in Finland.
The article itself didn’t tell more than where it was found, who owned the stone, and that it had been sent to an archeologist. I didn’t find anything more related to this stone by googling today.
I look forward in hearing more about the stone. And of course information on when it was written and in what language.
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