Finnish Word Order

Word order in Finnish is less important than it is in English.

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 * Ilkka Jääskeläinen ottaa ensiaskeleitaan
 * IJ takes his first steps
 * Ilkka Jääskeläinen on ottamassa ensiaskeleitaan
 * IJ is taking his first stems
 * Ilkka Jääskeläinen on ottamassa ensiaskeleitaan ammattimuusikkona
 * IJ is taking his first steps as a professional musician
 * Suomen Idoli Ilkka Jääskeläinen ottaa ensiaskeltaan ammattimuusikkona
 * Finnish Idol IJ is taking his first steps as a professional musician
 * Suomen toinen virallinen Idoli Ilkka Jääskeläinen ottaa ensiaskeltaan ammattimuusikkona


 * Finland's second official Idol IJ is taking his first steps as a professional musician
 * Suomen toiseksi viralliseksi idoliksi valittu Ilkka Jääskeläinen on ottamassa vasta ensiaskeleitaan ammattimuusikkona
 * (transliteration) Finland's becoming second official Idol (the) chosen IJ is taking his first stems as professional musician.
 * (or reconstructed) Ilkka Jääskelaäinen, chosen to become Finland's second official Idol, is just taking his first steps as a professional musician.


 * The above illustrates quite nicely why it is a good idea to get the feel of how sentences are constructed, especially in written Finnish. As spoken Finnish this most like would be spoken with sub-clauses (like the English translation has) or even break the ideas into two or more sentences.  So things are not so bad as they may seem!