PolyLingo
🇫🇮 Finnish
SuomiLatin

Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)

Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.

What matters most

Sinä vs te can mark formality/plural.

  • When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
  • Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
Minä olen täällä.
I am here.
Hän on ystäväni.
He/She is my friend.
Puhutko englantia?
Do you speak English?

Mini challenge

Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).

Mini‑quiz

Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “I am here.”?