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Q&A Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish?

The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy into its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own...

posted 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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#3: Post edited by user avatar Jirka Hanika‭ · 2020-12-02T22:48:43Z (over 3 years ago)
  • The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy in its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar.
  • (I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either. In their powerful imagination, the toy already went to sleep, or at least the process is already started, the moment they conceived it. But you are the adult, so you analyze and speak like an adult.)
  • The child will pick up more conventional grammar over time as needed, at their own pace. You are not correcting, you are playing along.
  • The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy into its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar.
  • (I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either. In their powerful imagination, the toy already went to sleep, or at least the process is already started, the moment they conceived it. But you are the adult, so you analyze and speak like an adult.)
  • The child will pick up more conventional grammar over time as needed, at their own pace. You are not correcting what they said, you are building on it and playing along.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Jirka Hanika‭ · 2020-12-02T22:42:37Z (over 3 years ago)
  • The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy in its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar.
  • (I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either. In their powerful imagination, the toy already went to sleep, or at least the process is already started, the moment they conceived it. But you are the adult, so you analyze and speak like an adult.)
  • The child will pick up more grammar over time as needed, at their own pace. You are not correcting, you are playing along.
  • The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy in its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar.
  • (I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either. In their powerful imagination, the toy already went to sleep, or at least the process is already started, the moment they conceived it. But you are the adult, so you analyze and speak like an adult.)
  • The child will pick up more conventional grammar over time as needed, at their own pace. You are not correcting, you are playing along.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Jirka Hanika‭ · 2020-12-02T22:41:24Z (over 3 years ago)
The younger the child, the less established the grammar.  You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy in its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar.

(I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either.  In their powerful imagination, the toy already went to sleep, or at least the process is already started, the moment they conceived it.  But you are the adult, so you analyze and speak like an adult.)

The child will pick up more grammar over time as needed, at their own pace.  You are not correcting, you are playing along.