Written production
What the written production domain tests
You must produce connected Skolt Sámi for a defined audience and purpose: a message, notice, short narrative, opinion or description. Examiners reward task achievement, range, accuracy and cohesion. A short text that covers every content point and controls case and agreement scores better than a longer text with broken inflection.
Core rules
- Read the prompt for audience, register and required points. Underline what the reader must learn or do.
- Plan three moves: opening or greeting, core content with details, closing. Keep one main idea per paragraph.
- Show grammatical range deliberately: include a question, a negative clause, a past or future time reference, and a dual or plural form where it fits.
- Check case government after verbs and expressions of place. Destination vs location is a common accuracy point.
- Use correct orthography: ʹ for palatalization, and the vowel letters ä, å, õ and â where required. Missing diacritics change words.
- Link with simple connectors and pronoun reference; avoid stringing short subject-verb sentences together.
Worked example
Prompt: invite two friends to a meeting at a named place. Reasoning: because the addressees are exactly two, use the dual 'you two' pronoun and dual verb agreement, not plural 'you'. If you say where they should come, use the illative after the motion verb; if you say where the meeting is, use the locative. Include the time and place as separate content points, then close politely. This plan covers task, number and case without adding unsupported detail.
Traps that cost marks
- Writing a generic essay that ignores the prompt's role or content points.
- Using plural forms for two addressees and losing the dual.
- Omitting or misplacing diacritics and the palatalization mark.
- Direct translation from Finnish or Norwegian, producing wrong case government.
- No paragraphing or no clear closing.
- Spending the editing time on vocabulary while leaving agreement errors.