Learn Finnish: Minä en ole sairas tänään.

In Finnish, "not" behaves like a verb and changes depending on who you are talking about. For "I" (minä), the negative verb is en. The main verb that follows it takes a special neutral form called the connegative. For the verb olla (to be), this form is always ole. So, en ole literally translates to something like "I-not be".

If I wanted to say "you are not sick", would the word ole change?

No, ole stays exactly the same! In negative sentences, only the negative "not" verb changes to match the person. To say "you are not", you just change en to et, making the phrase et ole sairas. The ole part never changes, no matter who is (or isn't) sick.

Can I leave out the word minä and just say en ole sairas tänään?

Yes, absolutely! Because the negative verb en already clearly means "I do not" or "I am not", the pronoun minä is optional. Dropping the pronoun is very common and sounds perfectly natural in spoken Finnish.

Can I change the word order and put tänään at the beginning of the sentence?