Type I Verbs
These are verbs whose infinitive forms end in vowel + a/ä, for example puhua = "to speak", tietää = "to know". This group contains a very large number of verbs. Here is how tietää conjugates in the present indicative:
- minä tiedän = I know
- sinä tiedät = you (singular) know
- hän/se tietää = (s)he/it knows
- me tiedämme = we know
- te tiedätte = you (plural/formal) know
- he/ne tietävät = they know
The personal endings are -n, -t, -(doubled final vowel), -mme, -tte, -vat. The inflecting stem is formed by dropping the final -a/ä of the infinitive, and has a strong-grade consonant in the third-person forms and weak-grade elsewhere. Note that for third person plural, this is an exception to the general rule for strong grade.
Read more about this topic: Finnish Verb Conjugation
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