Animals

The section on animals will teach you new vocabulary and the plural nominative.

Pelätä
The only new verb in this lesson is pelätä (to fear, to be afraid of). Pelätä belongs to the same conjugation type 4 as seurata which we have had earlier. The only difference is that pelätä has a L→LK consonant gradation. The strong stem is used in all personas.

Plural nominative
We learned in the previous section that the plural marker is -i-. That is true for all plural forms except the nominative which is marked by a -t at the end of the word and has no -i-. The -t is added to the singular weak stem of the word. This section teaches the following words, here grouped by declination type.

The plural nominative is used mostly as the subject of a sentence just like the nominative in singular. Note that most of the time a predicative in plural is in partitive, not nominative. Therefore you say Ihmise t ovat eläim iä .