Verb conjugator

Finnish verb conjugation tables

Type any Finnish verb, or pick one of 16 common ones, and see it fully conjugated in the present, past and future, for every person. The built-in verbs are the ones you meet first and use most, regular and irregular.

Quick answer

Finnish verb conjugation is how a verb changes its ending, and sometimes its stem, to match the subject and the tense. This free tool lays out full tables for 16 of the most common Finnish verbs across 3 core tenses. Pick a verb like puhua (to speak) or olla (to be), or type any Finnish verb of your own to conjugate it on the spot.

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Showing puhua (to speak) · regular, Type 1

puhua

to speak regular, Type 1
Preesens (Present)
minä puhun
sinä puhut
hän puhuu
me puhumme
te puhutte
he puhuvat
Imperfekti (Past)
minä puhuin
sinä puhuit
hän puhui
me puhuimme
te puhuitte
he puhuivat
Perfekti (Present Perfect)
minä olen puhunut
sinä olet puhunut
hän on puhunut
me olemme puhuneet
te olette puhuneet
he ovat puhuneet

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How Finnish conjugation works

To conjugate a verb is to change its form to show who is doing the action (the subject) and when (the tense). In each table above, the subject runs down the left and the matching form sits beside it, across 3 core tenses: Preesens (Present), Imperfekti (Past), Perfekti (Present Perfect).

Verbs split into regular and irregular. Regular verbs follow a fixed pattern you can apply to thousands of others once you learn it; the badge on each verb names its type (regular, Type 1 for puhua, for example). Irregular verbs like olla (to be) change in ways you memorize one by one, which is exactly why the most common verbs are so often the most irregular.

You do not learn these by staring at the grid. You learn them by meeting them, over and over, in real sentences until the pattern feels obvious. That is what reading does, and it is what reading in Lingo7 is built for: open a real book in Finnish, tap any verb form to see its meaning, and the conjugations start to stick on their own.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you conjugate Finnish verbs?

To conjugate a Finnish verb, you change its form to match the subject and the tense. Take puhua (to speak): in the minä form it is puhun now, puhuin in the past, and olen puhunut in the future. Regular verbs follow a fixed pattern by ending; irregular ones you learn one at a time. This tool shows the full table for each.

What are the most common Finnish verbs?

The most common Finnish verbs include puhua (to speak), sanoa (to say, to tell), asua (to live), olla (to be), jollakulla on (to have), tehdä (to do, to make), mennä (to go), tulla (to come). These high-frequency verbs are also the most irregular in most languages, which is why they are worth drilling first. This tool has full present, past and future tables for all 16.

Is Finnish verb conjugation hard?

Finnish conjugation takes practice but follows clear rules. Regular verbs are predictable once you learn the endings; the real work is the handful of very common irregular verbs and knowing which tense to use. Finnish is FSI Category III, about 1100 hours to professional proficiency. The fastest way to make the forms automatic is to meet them again and again in real sentences, which is what reading does.

How many tenses does Finnish have?

These three, Preesens (Present), Imperfekti (Past), Perfekti (Present Perfect), are the core of everyday Finnish and the right place to start. Real Finnish also uses other moods and aspects (and, in most languages, extra compound tenses), but they build on the same stems and personal endings you see in these tables.